Originally Posted by SRQ Guy
Visa bought Mastercard a few years back. Ever since then I have never seen a place that takes one and not the other.
Are you sure that Visa bought MasterCard? Everything that I have seen still shows that Visa and MasterCard are separate. Even the fact that they are each planning on separate IPO's.
From:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/s...200511048.html
"Apparently looking to match rival MasterCard, Visa has installed a new board of directors that many observers say may lead to an eventual public stocking offering."