Payment card shipments worldwide reached 6.49 billion last year, up 0.9% over 2016. Manufacturer shipments shown here include: Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay, American Express, Diners Club, Discover, JCB, and Maestro global general purpose credit, debit, and prepaid cards; ATM and local-market-only general purpose credit, debit, and prepaid cards; and retail, oil/fleet, medical, airline, and other private label credit and debit payment cards. Cards shown here include all magstripe-only and chip cards shipped. Gemalto, Idemia (formerly Oberthur Technologies and Morpho), G+D Mobile Security, Topp...