American Express, Diners Club/Discover, MasterCard, and Visa credit, debit, and prepaid global general purpose cards issued in Latin America and the Caribbean (LA&C) generated $597.28 billion in purchases of goods and services at merchants in 2015, up 14.7%. Purchase transactions for goods and services reached 16.99 billion, an increase of 9.3%. Visa and MasterCard purchase transactions combined reached 16.40 billion, accounting for 96.56% of the LA&C total. The remaining 3.44% or 0.53 billion purchase transactions were generated by American Express and Diners Club/Discover. V...