1959, Bank of America began to issue American bank cards in California. 1977 officially took "Visa" as the organizational symbol and called it the VISA international organization. VISA card is a credit card issued by Visa International with the tail number 1982. Visa system is the most perfect electronic payment network in the world, connecting as many as 654.38 billion cardholders and 24 million merchant trading points around the world.
MasterCard (new york Stock Exchange code: MA) was founded in 1966, and its global headquarters is located in new york in the eastern United States. As the world's leading payment company, MasterCard is committed to providing consumers around the world with a more convenient and efficient financial payment environment. MasterCard provides global business links for global financial institutions, governments, enterprises, merchants and cardholders through consulting services of payment joining, processing centers and payment industry. Use its MasterCard? Master? Cirrus? Brand, as well as credit cards, debit cards and prepaid cards as core products, as well as innovative multi-functional platforms, such as MasterCard PayPass? And MasterCard inControl? MasterCard continues to promote its global business, serving consumers, governments and merchants in more than 265,438+00 countries and regions.
China UnionPay is a joint bank card organization in China. Through the inter-bank transaction clearing system of UnionPay, the interconnection and resource sharing between commercial banking systems can be realized, and the inter-bank, inter-regional and cross-border use of bank cards can be guaranteed. UnionPay network is spread all over China, and has been extended to 150 countries and regions outside Asia, Europe, America, Oceania and Africa (as of 20 15 1.20).