Mastercard

Mastercard is an American payments network company that processes card transactions worldwide.

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Mastercard is a payments technology company headquartered in New York State. It does not issue cards or lend money itself. Instead, it runs a payments network that authorizes and settles credit and debit card transactions between card issuers such as banks and merchants.

Along with Visa, it is one of the most widely used card payment networks in the world.

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