Who owns Visa?
Visa is owned by Visa Inc. (the United States, NYSE: V).[1]
Evidence: Visa Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-06, SEC EDGAR, 6 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Visa Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, San Francisco, California
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Finance & insurance › Payments & lending › Card networks
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: V
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Visa
Visa is the main brand of Visa Inc.'s payments network, which the 10-K says connects approximately 12 billion cards, bank accounts and digital wallets to more than 175 million merchant locations in more than 200 countries and territories. Total payments and cash volume for fiscal 2025 was $17 trillion.
Ownership timeline of Visa
Where Visa sits in Visa
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Visa
Visa controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in finance & insurance.
Also in finance & insurance
Other brands in payments & lending, and who owns them
Visa has more brands in payments & lending on Brandtree than any other owner: 5 of 24.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bajaj Finance | Bajaj Finserv | 🇮🇳 India |
| Cirrus | Mastercard | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Mr. Cooper | Rocket Companies | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Culqi | Credicorp | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| Allegro Pay | Allegro | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| Argenpay | Banco Macro | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Barclays US Consumer Bank | Barclays | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Naranja X | Grupo Galicia | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
About the owner: Visa
Visa is a publicly listed company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: V.
Visa is a payments network company based in San Francisco. In its fiscal year to 30 September 2025 its total payments and cash volume was $17 trillion, with nearly 5 billion payment credentials available at more than 175 million merchant locations. Its Visa, Visa Electron, V PAY, Interlink and PLUS brands carry the transactions it processes, and it bought Pismo in January 2024 and Featurespace in December 2024.
🇺🇸 Visa and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Visa is not one of them.
- AllianceBernstein — Equitable Holdings 🇺🇸
- Allstate — Allstate 🇺🇸
- American Income Life — Globe Life 🇺🇸
- Barclays US Consumer Bank — Barclays 🇬🇧
- Berkley One — W. R. Berkley 🇺🇸
- CareScout — Genworth 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Visa?
The parent company of Visa is Visa Inc., a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Visa American?
Yes. Visa originated in the United States and its owner, Visa Inc., is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Visa still owned by Visa Inc.?
Yes. As of 15 October 2026, Visa is still owned by Visa Inc. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Visa Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-06 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 6 November 2025; retrieved 15 October 2026.
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