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August
7, 2006
Visa
Business Credit Card Spending at Over $100 Billion for First
Time
Visa announced today that spending on its business credit cards
broke $100 billion dollars over the past 12 months. It's the
first time that credit cards targeted to small business have
hit such levels. Small businesses made $103.5 billion in purchases
with their Visa business credit cards in the year ending June
30, 2006, a growth rate of 32.2 percent.
For
the second quarter of calendar year 2006, small business spending
on Visa business credit cards totaled $28.9 billion, a 29.9
percent increase over the same period in the prior year.
According
to Visa's numbers, small business spending grew 5.4 percent
in 2005 to $4.7 trillion. Of that amount, only $300 billion
is currently on credit cards.
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