Mastercard
Sign in to saveMastercard 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 is an American company that processes payment transactions between merchants' banks and customers' banks when people use Mastercard-branded debit, credit, or prepaid cards to make purchases. It matters because it provides the essential financial infrastructure that enables billions of card transactions to occur worldwide every day.
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- 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)
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31 sectionsContents
- 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.
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