General purpose credit, debit, and prepaid Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Diners Club cards issued in Europe generated $2.659 trillion in purchases of goods and services in 2017, an increase of 10.2% over 2016. Visa purchase volume was up 11.3% over 2016 to $1.644 trillion. Diners Club purchase volume reached $7.45 billion on growth of 10.7%. American Express purchase volume grew to $100.59 billion, up 10.2%. Mastercard purchase volume grew 8.4% to $906.96 billion. Figures shown here are for Europe as a geographic region and do not include Israel, which we report with Middle Eastâ€...