Visas, exact VISAS international, is one of the two large international organizations for credit cards and debit maps. The name VISAS is a recursive acronym and stands for "“visas internationally for service Association"”. Visas international assigns licenses at banks in all world for the expenditure of their maps (Issuing licenses) and for the account of contract enterprises (Acquiring licenses). In Europe in London Westminster the residents address VISAS international (European Union) is responsible. To the sphere of influence also the non--European Union states Morocco, Algeria, Tunesien, Turkey and Israel belong to the European address. The tasks and rights of the VISAS international notice so-called cathedral TIC Members in the individual states.

The Produktportfolio of visas international covers credit cards and debit maps with the visa flag Logo, the debit map visas Electron and the cash reference map plus. Beside VISAS Electron will chip debit map V-Pay with beginning of the yearly 2006 in Europe and pin-based to be introduced. The visa map was launched 1976. It is the advancement of the earlier BankAmericard, which only by the bank OF America was originally spent. The colors blue and gold used in the visa Logo are to symbolize the blue sky and the gold-colored hills of the US Federal State of California, in which the bank OF America was created.

One is common to visas the founder of the EMV specification for credit cards with chip with Europay and MasterCard.

Since further a Prepaid visa map, which is to make young person possible the entrance to the advantages of a credit card with simultaneous protection from indebtedness, exists to newest. This is offered to Xbox VISAS Card in a co-operation by Microsoft, Visa and the Landesbank Berlin in Germany and carries the names prepaid.

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• http://www.visaeu.com

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