Whois & Analysis for mastercard.ie

Mastercard Incorporated or Mastercard Worldwide is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in the MasterCard International Global Headquarters, Purchase, New York, United States, in Westchester County.

The Global Operations Headquarters is located in O'Fallon, Missouri, United States, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.

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 and credit cards to make purchases.

Mastercard Worldwide has been a publicly traded company since 2006.

Prior to its initial public offering, MasterCard Worldwide was a cooperative owned by the more than 25,000 financial institutions that issue its branded cards.

In finance and economics, a financial institution is an institution that provides financial services for its clients or members.

One of the most important financial services provided by a financial institution is acting as a financial intermediary.

Most financial institutions are regulated by the government.

A business (also known as an enterprise, a company or a firm) is an organizational entity involved in the provision of goods and services to consumers.

Businesses serve as a form of economic activity, and are prevalent in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and provide goods and services allocated through a market to consumers and customers in exchange for other goods, services, money, or other forms of exchange that hold intrinsic economic value.

Businesses may also be social non-profit enterprises or state-owned public enterprises operated by governments with specific social and economic objectives.

A business owned by multiple private individuals may form as an incorporated company or jointly organise as a partnership.

Countries have different laws that may ascribe different rights to the various business entities.

A payment is the transfer of an item of value from one party (such as a person or company) to another in exchange for the provision of goods, services or both, or to fulfill a legal obligation.

In law, the payer is the party making a payment while the payee is the party receiving the payment.

In trade, payments are frequently preceded by an invoice or bill.

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In economic systems consumers are utilities expressed in the decision to trade or not.