Consumer and commercial credit, debit, and prepaid cards issued in Canada carrying Visa, Mastercard, Interac, and American Express brands generated $529.85 billion in purchase volume for goods and services in 2016, up 5.5% over 2015. When cash advances and withdrawals are added to purchase volume on these general purpose cards, total volume was $563.53 billion. Cash accounted for 5.98% of total volume. It was 6.24% the prior year. Purchase transactions reached 10.54 billion, up 7.3% over 2015. Mastercard grew by 12.4%. Visa was up 8.6%. Interac, Canada’s PIN-based debit brand, increased 5...