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Visa (credit card)

Visa Inc.
Public
Traded as V
DJIA Component
S&P 100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Industry Financial services
Founded 1958; 59 years ago (1958) (as BankAmericard)
Fresno, California, United States
Founder Dee Hock
Headquarters Foster City,California, United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Al Kelly
(CEO)
Products Credit cards, payment systems
Revenue IncreaseUS$13.88 billion (2015)
IncreaseUS$9.06 billion (2015)
IncreaseUS$6.32 billion (2015)
Total assets IncreaseUS$40.23 billion (2015)
Total equity IncreaseUS$29.84 billion (2015)
Number of employees
11,300 (2015)
Website visa.com

Visa Inc. (/ˈvzə/ or /ˈvsə/) (also known as Visa, stylized as VISA) is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Foster City, California, United States. It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout the world, most commonly through Visa-branded credit cards and debit cards. Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers; rather, Visa provides financial institutions with Visa-branded payment products that they then use to offer credit, debit, prepaid and cash-access programs to their customers. In 2015, the Nilson Report, a publication that tracks the credit card industry, found that Visa’s global network (known as VisaNet) processed 100 billion transactions with a total volume of US$6.8 trillion.

Visa has operations across all continents worldwide with the exception of Antarctica. Nearly all Visa transactions worldwide are processed through VisaNet at one of two secure facilities: Operations Center East, located somewhere near Ashburn, Virginia; and Operations Center Central, located somewhere near Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Both data centers are heavily secured against natural disasters, crime, and terrorism; can operate independently of each other and from external utilities if necessary; and can handle up to 30,000 simultaneous transactions and up to 100 billion computations every second. Every transaction is checked past 500 variables including 100 fraud-detection parameters - such as the location and spending habits of the customer and the merchant's location - before being accepted.


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