The report also uncovers the fact that worldwide card purchase volume for goods and services has increased up to 5.8% during the same year.
Moreover, payments via Visa produced 54.06% of all purchase transactions on general purpose cards around the world, Visa debit cards (34.82%) and Visa credit cards (19.23%) accounting for the most purchase transactions.
Mastercard was designated the second most popular, followed by UnionPay, American Express, JCB cards and Diners Club/Discover.
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