Early Days
This US card company was named after a group of people who would settle their debts with restaurants they patronized at the end of every month.
What is Diner's Club?
This proposed change in policy introduced by the Federal Reserve in October 2023 led to drops in Visa and Mastercard stock.
What is the Durbin Amendment (revising - and lowering - caps on interchange fees)?
Aside from the Olympic Games, this is one of the dozens of professional sports athletes, teams, or leagues sponsored by Visa.
What is the NFL, Red Bull Racing, Sky Brown, Noah Lyles, others?
This country logged the most real-time digital payments in the world in 2023, many of which were enabled by its Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
What is India?
Visa’s data center in the western US is located in this state.
What is Colorado?
BankAmericard turned a profit for the first time in 1961 but kept it quiet in the hopes that widespread consumer concerns about this problem would keep competition low.
What is fraud?
One of the several products/product lines launched at the Visa Payments Forum in May.
What are Visa Flexible Credential, Tap-to-Everything, Visa Payment Passkey Service, Pay by Bank, and Visa Protect for A2A Payments?
These are five locations of Olympic Games Visa has sponsored (there are more than five in total).
What are Paris, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, London, Beijing, Athens, Sydney, Atlanta, Pyeongchang, Sochi, Vancouver, Turin, Salt Lake City, Nagano, and others?
Visa customers held this many cards worldwide as of December 2023 (within a 10% margin).
What is 4.4 billion?
This is Visa's stock ticker.
What is V?
Bank of America mailed 60,000 credit cards to residents of this California city in the first of many “drops” accompanying the launch of the credit card product.
What is Fresno?
The blue and gold in Visa’s logo prior to 2014 represented these two things in the state of California.
What are blue skies and gold hills?
This Visa slogan, introduced in 1986, also served as a means of poking fun at a competitor whose cards were not accepted by institutions to the same extent globally.
What is "It's everywhere you want to be"?
This is the name of China’s major card services provider.
What is UnionPay?
This was the top reason for paying with a credit card according to a 2023 study (some examples of others were loyalty programs, cash withdrawals, and high credit limits)?
What is access to flexible payment plans/BNPL programs?