What does Mastercard do?

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Where is MasterCard headquartered?

Mastercard Inc. (stylized as MasterCard from 1979–2016, mastercard from 2016–2019) is the second-largest payment-processing corporation worldwide. It offers a range of financial services. Its headquarters are in Purchase, New York.

Are Visa & MasterCard a credit card network?

Visa and Mastercard are two of the largest credit card networks in the world, each operating in more than 200 countries. As card networks, Visa and Mastercard work with banks and financial institutions to process debit and credit card payments, but they don’t issue any cards themselves.

Is MasterCard a major payment network?

Mastercard is the second-largest payments network, ranked behind Visa, in the global payments industry. Other major payments networks include American Express and Discover. Mastercard partners with member financial institutions all over the world to offer Mastercard-branded network payment cards.