About Visa Europe
In Europe, there are 430 million Visa debit, credit and commercial cards. In the 12 months ending March 2011 those cards were used to make purchases and cash withdrawals to the value of €1.6 trillion. 12.5% of consumer spending at point of sale in Europe is with a Visa card, and more than 70% of that is on Visa debit cards.
Visa Europe is a membership association of more than 4,000 European banks and payment institutions. As a payment technology business, Visa provides the brand, systems, services and operating rules that make electronic payments between millions of European consumers, retailers, businesses and governments happen. Visa is continually investing and innovating, creating new and better ways to pay and be paid - they make money flow. As a dedicated European payment system it is able to respond quickly to the specific market needs of European banks and their customers - cardholders and retailers - and to meet the European Commission's objective to create a true internal market for payments.
MasterCard® is a global payments company with one of the most recognised and respected brands in the world.
White Eagle (Europe) Plc is an authorised MasterCard Member Service Provider. MasterCard manages a full range of payment programmes and services, including MasterCard® and Maestro Prepaid Cards. MasterCard's role is to facilitate transactions among those who use their payment cards, those who accept them, and the member financial institutions that manage these relationships. In conjunction with their member institutions, MasterCard® provide the infrastructure to ensure that these payments transactions are completed with a virtually 100 percent success rate. They are responsible for establishing standards and procedures for the acceptance and settlement of member transactions on a global basis. They provide a global communications network for interchange - the electronic transfer of information and funds among MasterCard® members.
The White Eagle Prepaid Cards are either MasterCard® or Maestro branded Chip and PIN enabled, Prepaid Cards and as such, will be accepted for use, anywhere that displays the MasterCard® brand.
