Visa and Mastercard are the world's largest credit card networks and share many similarities, with a few notable differences in benefits.

Like Visa, Mastercard saw depressed ... More customers generate more revenue from those streams, so the goal for most credit card companies is to grow their membership as much as possible.

Income increased by just 0.4%, which was less than spending, meaning that people ... companies like Visa and Mastercard. More spending drives higher payment volumes that go through these companies' ...