Visa - 44 Competitors and alternatives in Sep 2024 - Tracxn (2024)

Payment card network for businesses and individuals. It connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses for initiating and accepting payments. It acts as a network between issuing banks and acquiring banks to authenticate a transaction and transfer funds. It facilitates payments for shopping, traveling, running a business, managing finances, and more. It specializes in global digital payments or commerce, and mobile payment processing solutions.In 2022, the company recorded annual revenues of $22.23B and a net profit of $9.93B.

Banking and card payment network for consumers and businesses. It offers services to consumers such as personal and student loans, credit cards, digital banking, and more. Discover Network leverages card acceptance at businesses and cash access locations. It also operates the ATM debit network and acts as a network between merchants or businesses and issuing banks for facilitating transactions.

VocaLink designs, builds and operates payment systems and ATM switching platforms. In 2013, VocaLink processed 10 billion payment transactions for financial institutions and their customers with a combined value of £5 trillion. They are the provider of three principal UK transaction services: Bacs, Faster Payments Service and the LINK ATM Service. With Bacs, VocaLink processes Direct credits and debit transfers. The ATM switch delivers an 'always-available' transaction processing infrastructure that ensures network availability. The UK Faster Payments Service empowers people to pay who they want, when they want.

Diners Club International is owned by Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), a direct banking and payment services company with one of the most recognized brands in U.S. financial services. Established in 1950, Diners Club International became the first multi-purpose charge card in the world, launching a financial revolution in how consumers and companies pay for products and services. Today, Diners Club is a globally recognized brand serving the payment needs of select and affluent consumers, offering access to more than 450 airports lounges worldwide, and providing corporations and small business owners with a complete array of expense management solutions, with acceptance in more than 185 countries and territories, millions of merchant locations and access to over 845,000 cash access locations and ATMs.

Interac is a Canadian National card network service provider. It is responsible for the development and operations of the Interac network, a national payment network that allows Canadians to access their money at ABMs through the Interac Cash service and at point-of-sale terminals across Canada through the Interac Debit service. Interac Debit also includes Interac Flash, a secure contactless enhancement that allows Canadians to pay for items instantly by holding their cards at point-of-sale readers that support Interac Flash. It also offers a secure money transfer service between accounts in the financial institutions in the network, a hosted payment gateway page to merchants which enable direct debit from the Interac partnered financial institutions. Enables secure transactions through Tokenization.

NETS operates a Singapore-based national debit card network enabling customers of DBS Bank, POSB, HSBC, Maybank, OCBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and UOB to make payments using their ATM cards. Manages the clearing and payment infrastructure for the Singapore Clearing House Association. Additional offerings include direct debit and credit payments at point-of-sale and online gateways, mobile payments, card services, electronic funds transfer and cheque processing services.

Payment networks to facilitate card-based transactions. It acts as a network of issuing banks, banks, and payment institutions that process transactions. It offers financing, credit guarantee, collection services, and more. It provides services for prepayment, real-time payment, and post-payment.

Payment processing network for financial institutions and businesses. It uses market intelligence to provide financial solutions to its clients. It facilitates transactions between merchants and card issuers.

VISA Europe is a European payment network, providing card services to banks and financial institutions. Cards include credit, debit (magstripe and EMV), prepaid and virtual prepaid cards. For businesses it provides mPoS, contactless PoS devices, security solutions (including PCI compliance applications), business intelligence solutions. It doesn't itself issue its cards, but through partner financial institutions. Acquired by VISA for $23.5B in October 2015.

BankAxept is a card payment network in Norway. Payments can be done with the use of a chip and PIN, contactless cards using NFC technology, by mobile phone or net payments directly from bank account. Offers payments through contactless cards without entering a PIN code for amounts below $ 200.