Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover are the general purpose card brands in the U.S. Figures in the graphic above and the ones on pages 8 and 9 show the top issuers in 2016 of credit cards with those brands. Those figures include all general purpose consumer and commercial (small business, corporate, purchasing, and fleet) credit and charge card products. Outstandings (including securitizations) for the industry reached $860.64 billion at December 31, 2016, up 7.5% from $800.96 billion at December 31, 2015. This was an increase of $59.68 billion. Chase, Bank of America, and C...