Who we are
Visa Europe is a payments business. By making
payments easier, we bring more speed, security and simplicity to
consumers, retailers and businesses, banks, other payment service
providers and governments.
Everyone knows the Visa brand; Visa cards are accepted at
millions of places worldwide. But, who we are as a company is not
so well understood.
We are the European payment system, wholly
owned, controlled and operated by more than 4,000 members – banks
and other payment service providers, from 36 countries across
Europe.
We provide the brand, systems, services and rules that help make
electronic payments between millions of European consumers,
retailers and businesses and governments happen. What we don’t do
is issue Visa cards ourselves – this is done by our members.
Visa Europe’s headquarters are in London. We also have offices in
Amsterdam, Athens, Brussels, Bucharest, Frankfurt, Istanbul,
Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Reading, Stockholm and Warsaw.
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how we manage our business
Visa Europe and Visa Inc.
Visa Europe is a European membership organisation, focused on
meeting the needs of European banks, other payment service
providers, consumers, retailers, businesses and governments. We are
the exclusive European licensee of the Visa brand, products and
technology.
We partner with Visa Inc. to enable global Visa payments
but exist and operate as an entirely separate organisation. We are
incorporated in the UK.