A card association or a bank card association is a network of issuing banks and acquiring banks that process payment cards of a specific brand.
Examples
Familiar payment card association brands include UnionPay, RuPay, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, Troy and JCB.
While once card associations, Visa and Mastercard have both become publicly traded companies.[1][2]
Statistics
Among United States consumers alone, over 600 million payment cards are in circulation.[3]
References
- ↑ "Visa IPO Seeks MasterCard Riches" , TheStreet.com, February 2, 2008.
- ↑ "Mastercard Incorporated MA". https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:MA.
- ↑ frontline: secret history of the credit card: watch online | PBS
Credit, charge and debit cards |
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| Major cards |
- American Express
- Diners Club
- Mastercard
- Visa
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Regional and specialty cards |
- Bancomat
- BC Card
- BCA Card
- Cabcharge
- Dankort
- Discover
- EFTPOS
- Electronic Payment Services (EPS)
- Elo
- Forbrugsforeningen
- Girocard
- Interac
- Isracard
- JCB
- Mir
- MEPS
- NETS
- PayPak
- RuPay
- Troy
- UnionPay
- UATP
- V Pay
- Verve
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| Defunct cards |
- Access
- Bankcard
- Carte Blanche
- Carte Bleue
- Choice
- enRoute
- Eurocard
- Everything
- Laser
- Rail Travel Card
- Revolution Card
- Solo
- Switch
- PIN
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| Accounts |
- Payment card number
- Card association
- Card enclosure
- Credit card balance transfer
- Credit limit
- Installment credit
- Revolving account
- Deposit account
- Current/checking account
- Savings account
- ATM card
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| Debt | |
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| Interest |
- Grace period
- Introductory rate
- Universal default
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| Payment |
- Card not present transaction
- Chargeback
- Controlled payment number
- Dispute
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| Interchange |
- Interchange fee
- Surcharge
- Card scheme
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| Security |
- Card security code
- Chargeback fraud
- Credit card fraud
- Credit card hijacking
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| Technology |
- Automated teller machine
- Contactless payment
- EMV
- Hardware security module
- Interbank network
- Magnetic stripe card
- Payment terminal
- Personal identification number
- Secure cryptoprocessor
- Smart card
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| Banking |
- Issuing bank
- Acquiring bank
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