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Also known as MasterCard Incorporated, MasterCard Worldwide, MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED (Purchase, NY)

Mastercard Inc. (stylized as MasterCard from 1979 to 2016 and as mastercard from 2016 to 2019) is an American multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York. It offers a range of payment transaction processing and other related-payment services (such as travel-related payments and bookings). Throughout the world, its principal business is to process payments between the banks of merchants and the card-issuing banks or credit unions of the purchasers who use the Mastercard-brand debit, credit and prepaid cards to make purchases. Mastercard has been publicly

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Mastercard Incorporated is a United States-based company established in 1966, with its legal headquarters in Harrison, Delaware. The organization operates as an active entity within the Services-Business Services sector and is listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol MA. It has approximately 39,800 employees and maintains a market capitalization of 446,250,000,000.

Financial records indicate total assets of 54,100,000,000 and total revenue of 32,800,000,000. The company’s net profit has varied across reporting periods, with figures including 6,411,000,000, 1,462,532,000, 1,085,886,000, and -253,915,000. Operating income has similarly fluctuated, with reported values of 8,081,000,000, 2,260,108,000, 1,108,112,000, and -534,505,000. The entity is also identified by the aliases MasterCard Incorporated and MasterCard Worldwide.

Synthesized by Vinony from 41 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, GLEIF, SEC EDGAR, ROR, Firecrawl, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Company.name
Mastercard Inc.
Company.logo
Mastercard 2019 logo.svg
Company.logo_size
200px
Company.logo_caption
Logo used since 2019, with the current symbol since 2016 without the "Mastercard" wordmark
Company.type
Public
Company.industry
Financial services
Company.location
2000 Purchase Street
Company.location_city
Purchase, New York
Company.location_country
U.S.
Company.area_served
Worldwide
Company.revenue
(2025)
Company.operating_income
(2025)
Company.net_income
(2025)
Company.assets
(2025)
Company.equity
(2025)
Company.num_employees
35,300 (2024)

via Wikipedia infobox

Company

MA
Industry
Services-Business Services, NEC
Exchange
NYSE
State of incorporation
DE
Entity type
operating
Latest filing
FWP · 2026-06-04
Jurisdiction
US-DE
Headquarters
HARRISON, US

via SEC EDGAR · GLEIF

Research organization · ROR

Type
Company, Funder
Founded
1966
Location
Purchase, United States
Also known as
MasterCard Incorporated, MasterCard Worldwide
Status
Active

GRID grid.467497.f · ISNI 0000 0004 0402 5440

Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
public company
Part of
S&P 100
Headquarters
Purchase
Employees
39800
Revenue
32800000000
Official website
www.mojmastercard.sk
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Commons category
Mastercard
topic's main category
Category:Mastercard
social media followers
75400
inception
1979-00-00
product or material produced
debit card
total assets
54100000000
total equity
7700000000
market capitalization
446250000000
net profit
15000000000
operating income
18900000000
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Encyclopedic overview

31 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Finances
  • Market power
  • United States
  • Swipe fee fixing and merchant discount bans
  • Antitrust settlement with U.S. Justice Department
  • ATM operators
  • Merchant costs related to fraudulent card uses
  • Oceania
  • Europe
  • Other issues
  • United States internet gambling transactions
  • Blocking payments to WikiLeaks
  • Corporate branding of all Nigerian identity cards
  • Selling of credit card data
  • Regulatory ban in India
  • Regulatory ban in Vietnam
  • Adult content restrictions
  • Products
  • Prepaid debit cards
  • QkR
  • Mastercard Contactless
  • Crypto
  • Branding
  • Sports sponsorships
  • Corporate affairs
  • World Beyond Cash
  • Banknet
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Mastercard Inc. (stylized as MasterCard from 1979 to 2016 and as mastercard from 2016 to 2019) is an American multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York. It offers a range of payment transaction processing and other related-payment services (such as travel-related payments and bookings). Throughout the world, its principal business is to process payments between the banks of merchants and the card-issuing banks or credit unions of the purchasers who use the Mastercard-brand debit, credit and prepaid cards to make purchases. Mastercard has been publicly traded since 2006.

Mastercard (originally Interbank, then Master Charge) was created by an alliance of several banks and regional bankcard associations in response to the BankAmericard issued by Bank of America, which later became Visa and is still its biggest competitor. Along with Visa, Mastercard has faced numerous antitrust lawsuits. Prior to its initial public offering, Mastercard Worldwide was a cooperative owned by the more than 25,000 financial institutions that issue its branded cards.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mastercard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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