Specialized banks that manage merchant accounts
Acquiring banks
Credit used when a customer makes an expensive purchase and agrees to make payments over an extended but fixed period of time.
Installment credit
A specialized account established by a business in order to process credit card payments from its costumer
Merchant account
credit cards cosponsored by two companies which have benefits and rewards designed specifically for their joint customers.
Co-branded credit card
Merchant account provider
Credit cards issued by a financial institution and cosponsored by an organization that receives a small percentage of the sales or profits generated by the card.
Affinity credit card
A credit plan that allows customers to make credit purchase at any time as long as the balance does not exceed a specified dollar limit.
Revolving credit
Plastic card with an embedded microprocessor that can store and process a large amount of information that can be read by computers
Smart card