Credit Card Issuance: Strategies & Solutions
A suite for payments leaders to explore credit card trends, data-packed reports, and insights on why offering a robust credit card program drives revenue and builds loyalty.
Featured Articles

How Small Banks and Credit Unions Can Compete in Consumer Rewards
Rewards programs must balancing customer appeal with profitability, while competing against major players in a cutthroat market.

2025 Will Be the Year of the Credit Card
Credit cards are increasingly the lion’s share of new account openings, eclipsing checking and saving accounts. How can you leverage card demand for growth?

How Spending Priorities and Financial Health Guide Consumer Credit Card Choices
New research from Elan Credit Card reveals what is driving credit card choices: Financial stability shapes preferences between rewards and credit-building features for new cardholders.

How Technology Can Power Customer Satisfaction
Explore how financial institutions are investing in cloud, AI, and digital payment technologies to meet evolving customer expectations and stay competitive.

Are Co-Branded Credit Cards the Key to Attracting Card Revenue?
Co-branded cards is the new untapped potential in consumer credit. New study reveals surprising trends in adoption, usage and demographic preferences.

Fraud is Rising. Are Your Cardmembers Protected?
With credit card fraud losses increasing over recent years, financial institutions must take extra care to protect cardmembers.
Additional Resources

Consumers' Financial Health and Spending Priorities Guide
Learn what influences consumer selection of credit cards, motives for seeking a new card and spending habits of new cardholders in this new report.

The Power of an Issuing Partner
Watch the video to learn how Elan’s turnkey credit card issuing solution can benefit your financial institution.

Optimizing Your Credit Card Rewards Program
How does your rewards program influence consumer decisions? What are today’s preferred benefits? This whitepaper outlines what to consider.

Past, Present, Future: Technology in Payments
Learn what digital capabilities and solutions are trending, how much financial institutions are investing, and what’s next in payments innovation.

Inside an Elan Partnership, Tech and Customer Satisfaction
Learn about the inner workings of an Elan partnership including the role of account executives, logistics of a conversion, cardmember services, scalable technology, and more.

Mobile Experience for Cardmembers
Elan's enhanced mobile app has received a 4.8 out of 5 stars in the Apple App Store since it launched, Enjoy a preview of what your customers can expect from Elan.

5 Evolving Attack Methods in Credit Card Fraud
Learn about cyber attack methods, impacts of fraud losses and strategies to mitigate fraud for your financial institution and customers.