About MasterCard.com and MasterCard.ca MasterCard is a ™® of MasterCard Worldwide. MasterCard Worldwide (NYSE: MA) is a multinational corporation based in Purchase, New York, USA. Throughout the world, its principal business is to process payments between the banks of merchants and the banks of purchasers that use its "MasterCard" brand debit and credit cards to make purchases.
MasterCard operates Banknet, a global telecommunications network linking all MasterCard card issuers, acquirers and data processing centers into a single financial network. The operations hub is located in St. Louis, Missouri. MasterCard's network is significantly different from Visa's. Visa's is a star based system where all endpoints terminate at one of several main data centers, where all transactions are processed centrally. MasterCard's network is an edge based, peer-to-peer network where transactions travel a meshed network directly to other endpoints, without the need to travel to a single point. This allows MasterCard's network to be much more resilient, in that a single failure cannot isolate a large number of endpoints. MasterCard Incorporated (MasterCard) is a global payment solutions company that provides a variety of services in support of the credit, deposit access (debit), electronic cash and automated teller machine (ATM) payment card programs, travelers check programs and related payment programs of over 25,000 financial institutions that are its customers. The Company manages a family of payment card brands, including MasterCard, MasterCard Electronic, Maestro and Cirrus, which it licenses to its customers. The Company conducts its business principally through MasterCard’s principal operating subsidiary, MasterCard International Incorporated.
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