Visa Europe is a separate membership entity that is an exclusive licensee of Visa Inc.'s trademarks and technology in the European region, issuing cards such as Visa Debit.

For the new Visa Debit and Visa Electron logo, see the relevant pages.

The payment gateway accepts most major credit and debit cards, including Visa, Mastercard, Visa Debit, Switch, Solo, Delta and JCB.

In Ireland The Laser system, which is co-branded with Maestro, is being replaced by Visa Debit and MasterCard Debit.

Suruga Bank began service of Japan's first Visa Debit in 2006.

In response to this, many banks since 2005 have introduced international debit cards such as Maestro and Visa Debit which work online and overseas as well as on the New Zealand EFTPOS system.

Cards commonly in circulation include Maestro (previously Switch), Debit MasterCard, Visa Debit (previously Visa Delta) and Visa Electron.

Visa Debit is a major brand of debit card issued by Visa in many countries around the world.

The Delta name began to be phased out in favour of the Visa Debit branding from September 1998.

The competitors to Visa Debit in the debit card market are Maestro and Debit MasterCard debit cards.