Total volume—purchases and cash—generated by all global brand and domestic-market-only general purpose and private label credit, debit, and prepaid cards worldwide reached $34.119 trillion in 2017 up 7.0% from 2016. That figure includes “on us” and regional ATM withdrawals switched outside of the global networks. Gross fraud losses to card issuers, merchants, acquirers of card transactions from merchants, and acquirers of card transactions at automated teller machines (ATMs) in 2017 were $24.26 billion, up 6.4% from $22.80 billion the prior year. The 2017 fraud figure does not inclu...