2. International credit card organizations include Visa International, MasterCard International, American Express International Limited, Diners Letter of Credit Limited, JCB Japan International Credit Card Company, etc.
3. mastercard international is a global comprehensive payment brand. MasterCard International has 20,000 member financial institutions around the world, providing payment services to individuals and companies of all sizes in 265,438+00 countries and regions. MasterCard has as many as190,000 acceptance points and merchants around the world. Mastercard international entered China on 1988, and all major domestic commercial banks are members of it. MasterCard International has played an indelible role in the development of bank card industry in China. At present, most credit cards of China member banks use MasterCard brand.
4.Visa International and Visa (also known as Visa Card):
As the world's leading payment brand, Visa International is a non-share, non-profit international bank card organization composed of more than 265,438+0,000 member financial institutions around the world. Visa member institutions provide the widest range of payment products and services, including credit cards, debit cards, stored-value cards, corporate cards and multifunctional smart cards. Visa cards can be used by more than 29 million merchants in more than 300 countries and regions around the world, and local currency can be withdrawn from more than 800,000 ATMs in more than 30 countries. Visa's network system can handle 65,438+00,000 transactions per second at the earliest, and the annual credit card transaction volume exceeds 2.3 trillion US dollars. At present, the global circulation of Visa cards has exceeded 1 1 100 million, accounting for about 57% of the global payment card market.
5.Visa international organization entered China as early as the early 1990s, and devoted itself to cooperating with China's banking industry to promote the development of China's payment industry. At present, Visa has 17 member financial institutions in China, including China UnionPay. By the end of September 2002, the number of Visa cards issued in China exceeded 654.38+47 billion, including 535,000 international cards and 6,543.8+00,000 ATMs.
6. There is little difference between the two cards, both of which are internationally renowned brands.