The 50 largest issuers of credit, debit, and prepaid consumer and commercial general purpose cards in the Middle East and Africa region are ranked on pages 10 and 11. This group, which represents 47 countries, collectively accounted for $255.82 billion in purchase volume for goods and services in 2017, generated by 154.0 million cards. Cards counted in our survey include Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club, UnionPay, JCB, and Maestro—the global brands­—as well as domestic-only cards. There were 8 Saudi Arabia-based banks among the top 50 credit card issuers. Kuwait and the ...