Ranked on pages 6 and 7 are the 50 largest issuers from 15 countries of Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, JCB, Diners Club, American Express, and domestic credit, debit, and prepaid consumer and commercial cards in Europe. Collectively this group issued 679.1 million cards, which generated $2.427 trillion in purchases of goods and services at merchants in 2014. Visa and MasterCard branded credit, debit, and prepaid cards totaled 586.9 million and generated $2.255 trillion in purchase volume. New to the top 50 were DenizBank, Turkey, Banc Sabadell, Spain, and Tesco Bank, U.K. There were 428.4 mi...