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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]

Among United States consumers alone, over 600 million payment cards are in circulation.^[3]

v t e Credit, charge and debit cards
Major cards	American Express Diners Club Mastercard Debit Mastercard Maestro Visa Visa Debit Visa Electron
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
Defunct cards	Access Bankcard Carte Blanche Carte Bleue Choice enRoute Eurocard Everything Laser Rail Travel Card Revolution Card Solo Switch PIN
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 Fees
Debt	Cash advance Charge-off
Interest	Grace period Introductory rate Universal default
Payment	Card not present transaction Chargeback Controlled payment number Dispute
Interchange	Interchange fee Surcharge Card scheme
Security	Card security code Chargeback fraud Credit card fraud Credit card hijacking
Technology	Automated teller machine Contactless payment EMV Hardware security module Interbank network Magnetic stripe card Payment terminal Personal identification number Secure cryptoprocessor Smart card
Banking	Issuing bank Acquiring bank

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