Friday, June 30, 2006

Credit trivia

What were Mastercard and Visa called previously?

The answer appears in the comments.....

3 comments:

Karl Plesz said...

Mastercharge (MasterCard) and BankAmeriCard (Visa)

Anonymous said...

What ever happened with "chargex"? I'm thinking it changed to "mastercharge".

JM

Karl Plesz said...

You are absolutely right. Bankamericard was the US precursor to Visa, whereas in Canada it was Chargex. In the UK, it was Barclaycard and in France it was Carte Bleue.