Global brand and domestic-market-only general purpose and private label credit, debit, and prepaid cards worldwide generated $40.582 trillion in purchases of goods and services and cash advances and withdrawals (including on-us ATM activity) in 2018, an increase of 17.7% over 2017. Card issuers, merchants, acquirers of card transactions from merchants, and acquirers of card transactions at ATMs experienced gross fraud losses of $27.85 billion, an increase of 16.2% from $23.97 billion in 2017. All card-based payment systems worldwide generated gross fraud losses that amounted to 6.86¢ fo...