<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by fallinasleep:
Although the two cards seem interchangeable from a merchant acceptance perspective, someone once explained to me that there was a difference between the two cards. However, I've forgotten the details (I seem to recall that it had to do something with foreign currency transactions). So, does anyone know what the difference is? thanks</font>
Visa was started as an independent company where-as MC was founded by a bunch of banks to compete with VI...