About ECR
Published bi-monthly, European Card Review is the leading magazine covering the payment cards business in Europe.
ECR mails out more than 9,000 copies per issue – many more are distributed at targeted events throughout the year, giving ECR the biggest distribution in Europe of any cards industry publication. All are validated by the UK’s Audit Bureau of Circulation.
Its readers are senior industry executives with responsibility for managing all types of payment card programmes. ECR is also required reading for central bankers, regulators, card association executives, consultants, vendors and service providers.
As well as editorial coverage of payments throughout Europe, ECR has invested for the past 13 years in expanding its distribution in the dynamic emerging markets of central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. ECR today has a stronger presence in this region than any other card market publication.
ECR stays in close contact with trends in the industry, particularly card processing, POS terminals, contactless systems, mobile and internet payments, and innovations in payment card technology.
Other regular topics include country profiles, credit card programmes, debit cards, internet and mobile payments, prepaid cards, contactless cards, supplier and vendor products and fraud.
A wealth of tables and statistics provides essential industry data with every issue.
Published annually with the July/August issue, ECR’s standard-setting Buyers Guide is an essential reference work for suppliers and vendors and their customers, while the virtual version can be accessed all year round on
ECR’s website.
Launched in November 1994, European Card Review sets the highest standards of editorial coverage in its area of the publishing business, blending timely items of news with in-depth analysis and features contributed by a range of outside experts.
No other publication in Europe comes anywhere near its combination of authoritative editorial coverage and broadly-based circulation to all the major players in the region’s payment cards industry.

