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Sponsoring Bank Partners

Sponsoring Partners

Visa and MasterCard Networks

Sponsoring Bank:
A Sponsoring Bank is a Chartered Bank or S & L that has obtained membership in Visa or MasterCard in order to allow a Processor access to the Visa and MasterCard networks ( in order to process these types of transactions).

-Since only a Bank may join Visa or MasterCard, many Processors make deals with a Sponsoring Bank in order to gain access to the Visa and MasterCard networks.

-Because these Sponsoring agreements are usually like a partnership, the line between the Sponsoring Banks and their Processors is not always clear; sometimes the partnership is referred to by the name of the bank, while other times they are referred to by the name of the Processor.

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