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Cirrus is a worldwide interbank network that provides cash to Mastercard cardholders. As a subsidiary of Mastercard, it connects all Mastercard's credit, debit, and prepaid cards, as well as ATM cards issued by various banks worldwide bearing the Mastercard/Maestro logo.
The exception is the 'First International Bank of Israel' (FIBI) who do not accept Cirrus. The most common debit cards by Mastercard are branded Mastercard Direct (operated for the banks offer the card by Isracard). Otherwise (but to a much smaller scale) offered Mastercard Debit by banks like Israeli Discount Bank & Mercantile Bank.
Debit Mastercard was launched in Canada in July 2016 with Bank of Montreal.Similar to most Canadian Visa Debit cards, BMO's Debit Mastercard is co-badged with Interac and operates solely over that network for point-of-sale transactions in Canada, but uses the Mastercard network for Internet and international transactions.
STAR is an American interbank network.It is the largest interbank network in United States, with 2 million [1] ATMs, [2] 134 million cardholders and over 5,700 participating financial institutions.
A card association or a bank card association is a network of issuing banks and acquiring banks that process ... Visa and Mastercard have both become publicly traded ...
The network was established as the banking rules that limited banks' and branches' ability to share services were removed. The data processing facilities were originally provided by First City Bank and later transitioned to Texas Commerce Bank. In 1981, Pulse incorporated and began operating its regional EFT switching facility.
In 1996, four million merchants sued Mastercard in federal court for making them accept debit cards if they wanted to accept credit cards and dramatically increasing credit card swipe fees. This case was settled with a multibillion-dollar payment in 2003. This was the largest antitrust award in history. [35]
An acquiring bank (also known simply as an acquirer) is a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant. [1] The acquirer allows merchants to accept credit card payments from the card-issuing banks within a card association, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, China UnionPay, American Express.