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 the tables on pages 10 and 11. This group issued 5.43 billion payment cards that generated purchase volume of $9.600 trillion in 2017. Issuers from China had combined purchase volume of $8.080 trillion from 4.52 billion cards. They accounted for 84.2% of all purchase volume among the 50 largest issuers. Average annual spe...