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		jacquesm on Aug 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of c... Card issuers (VISA, MC), Amazon, Microsoft, major banks, Ebay, Paypal, Due, Payline, Paysquare. A leveraged buy-out would enable many more potential takers.

segmondy on Aug 2, 2017 [–]

Visa and MC are not card issuers. They are card networks.

A card issuer is a person that issues a credit card, so major banks, and Amex who happens to be both a card issuer and card network.

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