In 1986, Visa was one of the first corporations to join The Olympic Partnership (TOP). Since then, Visa has achieved explosive growth in a variety of ways, from the number of cards issued to the volume of purchase transactions made per year, among other figures. Below, take a look at how Visa has evolved since the partnership began.
With the world's population dramatically increasing its use of credit and debit comes the distinct possibility that we’re headed toward a cashless future. South Korea, the host country for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, has already pledged to become coinless by 2020, a potential precursor to a cashless society. In the meantime, as the chart below illustrates, South Korean customers today are more likely to use a credit or debit card to make a purchase than doing so with cash.
