PAYMENT GLOSSARY

Acquiring Bank

An acquiring bank provides credit card merchant accounts. It’s a bank that has a relationship with Visa® and Mastercard®, as well as your bank and is sometimes referred to as the clearing bank. The acquiring bank is responsible for clearing transactions after they are charged to a cardholder. That is, the acquiring bank makes the deposits into a bank account when credit cards are processed.

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