Ticker | MA |
FIGI | BBG000F1ZSQ2 |
CUSIP | 57636Q104 |
Sector | Financials |
Equity Type | Common Stock |
No. Companies Holding this Equity | 2937 / 41.9% |
Percentage held by institutional investors | 81.6% |
About
Mastercard Inc. (stylized as MasterCard from 1979 to 2016, mastercard from 2016 to 2019) is the second-largest payment-technology corporation worldwide. It offers a range of payment transaction processing and other related-payment services (such as travel-related payments and bookings). Its headquarters are in Purchase, New York. Throughout the world, its principal business is to process payments between the banks of merchants and the card-issuing banks or credit unions of the purchasers who use the Mastercard-brand debit, credit and prepaid cards to make purchases. Wikipedia