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Largest US Issuers of General Purpose Credit Cards

Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover are the general purpose credit card brands in the US. The 30 largest issuers of consumer, small business and commercial credit products that carry those brands are ranked in the table on page 6 based on outstandings, purchase volume, purchase transactions and cards for 2024. Private label cards owned by some of these issuers, including Synchrony, Citi, Capital One, Bread Financial, Wells Fargo, TD Bank and Barclays, are not included here. Purchase volume generated by all general purpose credit cards issued in the US was $6.136 trillion in 2...

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