Mastercard is popular in Europe

The credit card company worldwide purchase volume rose 14.3%, on US dollar basis in the second quoter 2007.

 As of June 30, 2007, the company's consumers had issued 164
million MasterCard cards, without Maestro and Cirrus products. The cardholder
used Mastercard on more than 8 million places for 1,39 billion shopping in 2007
2Q.