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MasterCard Inc., based in Purchase, N.Y., was founded in 1966 as the Interbank Card Association.  It is a leading international payments solutions company that offers a range of innovative credit, deposit access, electronic cash, business-to-business and related payment programs.  It was renamed Master Charge three years later and was purchased by the California Bank Association.  A decade after that, it changed its name again, from Master Charge to MasterCard.

MasterCard, through its principal operating subsidiary, MasterCard International Incorporated, manages a family of widely recognized and accepted payment cards—including MasterCard, Maestro and Cirrus—and serves financial...