Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region’s 50 largest general purpose payment card issuers  ranked by spending for goods and services collectively accounted for $664.25 billion in purchase volume in 2017. That group issued 705.0 million credit, debit, and prepaid consumer and commercial cards using Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, Discover, Diners Club, and American Express as well as 104.2 million cards that were domestic only. Issuers from 12 countries ranked among the top 50. Argentina had 10. Brazil, Chile, and Mexico each had 7 issuers on the list. Colombia had 5. Because of currency dev...