The 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. This group combined issued 4.93 billion payment cards that generated purchase volume of $8.687 trillion in 2016. Issuers from China accounted for 10 of the top 10, and 15 of the top 50 positions. Combined purchase volume of $7.369 trillion from 4.16 billion cards accounted for 84.8% of all purch...