General purpose consumer, small business, and commercial credit, debit, and prepaid cards issued in Canada with Visa, Mastercard, Interac, and American Express brands generated 13.23 billion purchase transactions for goods and services in 2019, up 6.5% over 2018. Mastercard purchase transaction growth was 11.1%, an increase of 282.7 million versus 2018. Visa purchase transactions were up 8.4%, an increase of 307.0 million. American Express purchase transactions increased 6.4%, up 10.7 million from 2018. PIN-based Interac, Canada’s debit card brand, had purchase transaction growth of 3.4%, an...