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Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) is a global payments technology company founded in 1958 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Originally established as BankAmericard by Bank of America, the company evolved into the Visa brand in 1976 and went public in 2008 in what was then one of the largest IPOs in U.S. history. Today, Visa operates the world's largest retail electronic payments network, facilitating digital payments among consumers, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.