On December 31, 2019, there were 23.62 billion credit, debit, and prepaid general purpose and private label payment cards in circulation worldwide. General purpose cards included global brands and domestic-only brands. UnionPay, Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, JCB, American Express, and Discover/Diners Club are the global brands. Combined, global brands reached 14.78 billion cards. Domestic-only brands, which operated independently in 63 countries at year-end 2019, totaled 1.61 billion. Domestic-only brands include RuPay (India); Star, Pulse, Nyce, and Accel (U.S.); Elo (Brazil); Mir (Russ...