MasterCard Logo — MasterCard Worldwide ( NYSE : MA ) is a public company listed on the NYSE. MasterCard is also a brand of credit cards and debit cards . It was originally created by the United Bank of California , and later teamed up with other banks, which are First Interstate Bank , bank Wells Fargo , Crocker National Bank and California First Bank .
The name Master Charge was licensed by the California bank above, a property of First National Bank of Louisville, Kentucky in 1967. With the help of Marine Midland Bank (now HSBC Bank USA ), these banks joined with the Interbank Card Association (ICA) to create “Master Charge: The Interbank Card”. In 1979 ” MasterChange: The Interbank Card “was renamed MasterCard . In 1990 , MasterCard bought the British Access Card . In 2002 it absorbed Europay International , another credit card company that I use for many years the name Eurocard. In 2006, MasterCard International changed its name to MasterCard Worldwide , this was done to suggest a more global scale of operations. Also introduced a new logo adding a third circle to the existing two (The logo on the credit cards , which represents a Venn diagram , remains intact). A new slogan was introduced at the same time: ” The Heart of Commerce “. More