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Re:A History of Visa by williamDafoe on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:32PM (#20537174)
(Error) Bank Americard actually changed their name because they wanted to expand internationally and having America in the name was not good in every country. That's precisely why they chose the name VISA.

MasterCharge got started just a few years after Bank Americard. I feel like they probably changed their name to MasterCard just to respond to their competitor's name change....

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Re:A History of Visa by MSD1976 on Friday July 26, 2019 @03:17PM (#20537564)
Sorry what's the error?

Started by BankAmericard by Bank of America in CA only. They then franchised it to other banks in neighboring states, and eventually international banks (I believe under the BankAmericard brand, or under the other bank's brand). And then in the mid 1970s all the participating banks decided to rebrand under "VISA".

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Re:A History of Visa by option_greek on Friday July 26, 2019 @03:50PM (#20537815)
Did Bank of America retain its original 0.5% agreement with the other banks when they spun off visa ? It seems odd that they would just give up an asset like that for other banks to own it.
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