The Asia-Pacific region’s 50 largest issuers of UnionPay, Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, JCB, Diners Club, and American Express general purpose credit, debit, and prepaid consumer and commercial cards as well as domestic-market-only general purpose cards in the Asia–Pacific region are included in charts on pages 10 and 11. Collectively, the top 50 issued 5.94 billion payment cards that generated purchase volume of $11.377 trillion in 2018. China placed 15 issuers on the list. That group had combined purchase volume of $9.676 trillion from 5.03 billion cards. They accounted for 85.1% of all ...