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Mastercard
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From Wikipedia:
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MasterCard Worldwide (NYSE: MA) is a multinational corporation based in Purchase, New York, USA. Throughout the world, its principal business is to process payments between the banks of merchants and the banks of purchasers that use its "MasterCard" brand debit and credit cards to make purchases. MasterCard Worldwide has been a publicly traded company since 2006. Prior to its initial public offering, MasterCard Worldwide was a membership organization owned by the 25,000+ financial institutions that issue its card. |
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Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), commonly called VISA, is an economic joint venture of 21,000 financial institutions that issue and market Visa products including credit and debit cards. The company was originally named Visa International Service Association. As a part of VISA's restructuring and IPO plan, the name change occurred in late 2007. VISA is not engaged in any actual credit lending, but rather generates revenues from operating the world's largest retail electronic payment network. The company is based in San Francisco, California, USA.
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