Credit Cards Partnerships: Business Model
Delivered October 6, 2020. Contributor: Vikrant J.
Goals
To have a broad understanding surrounding the credit card partnership business model. An ideal response would include - how to start the business, challenges, or threats, and opportunities.
Early Findings
Starting a credit card business partnership
- Companies like Visa does not issue credit cards but helps companies create a co-branding program. Their programs are particularly designed to help merchants attract new customers, increase sales, and deliver value.
- A co-branded credit card is issued in partnership with a retailer of consumer goods or services issues in partnership with a particular credit card issuer or network. The co-branded credit card usually bears the logo of both parties- one is the merchant and the other is bank or card network such as Visa, MasterCard, American Express, etc.
Credit Card Partnership with Visa
Role of Visa in Co-branded card program
- The role of Visa involves supporting its co-brand partners through advertising and marketing programs that encourage the use of Visa cards.
Co-branded credit cards
Market
- According to Packaged Facts, about 52% of American Express, MasterCard, or Visa cardholders use co-branded cards.
- According to the United States Co-Branded and Affinity Cards Market Report 2019, co-branded credit cards generated $990 billion in purchase value and with an increase of 7.9% in value from 2016.
Proposed next steps:
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