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Saudi Arabia is No. 1 in using VISA card in the gulf

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Saudi Arabia occupied the first position in the credit cards market in the Gulf area of 60% of total 3.45 million VISA cards that were issued in the gulf countries along the last 5 years.

A statement issued by the VISA International and said that "Saudi Arabia has issued by the end of last year 1.39 million cards followed by Emirates with 886.000 cards then Kuwait of 835.000 while total monetary value users spent using visa cards in Saudi Arabia reached 8.65 billion dollars.

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