Visa

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

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Visa is a payments technology company headquartered in California. It grew out of a card program that Bank of America launched in 1958. It does not issue cards itself; it runs a payments network that authorizes and settles credit and debit card transactions between card issuers and merchants.

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

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