Visa, UnionPay, Mastercard, JCB, Diners Club/Discover, and American Express brand general purpose cards generated 257.17 billion purchase transactions at merchants in 2016, up 13.3% — 30.21 billion more than in 2015. These transactions included all commercial and consumer credit, debit, and prepaid products. Debit figures shown here include prepaid cards. Visa cards include Visa Inc. and Visa Europe, which became a single company in June 2016. Visa cards generated 54.06% of all purchase transactions worldwide on global brand general purpose cards last year. Visa brand debit cards accounte...