Double digits grow at MasterCard Europe

For the full-year 2008, the European region reported double-digit growth in company gross euro volume with 15.5 %, purchase volume with 15.7 %, purchase transactions with 13.2 % and cash transactions with 10.5 %, against 2007.

 European customers made 6.4 billion
purchase transactions using MasterCard cards in 2008. It has been
revealed that 195 million MasterCard® cards (excluding Maestro®
and Cirrus®) had been issued by the company across Europe as of
31 December 2008. On the end of the year 313 million Europeans use
cards with Maestro® logo on it.