Mastercard, Inc. is a technology company, which engages in the provision of payment solutions for the development and implementation of credit, debit, prepaid, commercial, and payment programs through its brands including Mastercard, Maestro, and Cirrus. The company is headquartered in Purchase, New York and currently employs 33,400 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2006-05-25. The company allows users to make payments by creating a range of payment solutions and services using its brands: MasterCard, Maestro and Cirrus. The company enables a variety of payments capabilities (including products and value-added services and solutions) over its multi-rail network among account holders, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, governments and others, offering customers one partner for their payment needs. Its products include consumer credit, consumer debit, prepaid, B2B accounts payable, commercial point of sale, disbursements and remittances, and others. The company offers additional payment capabilities that include automated clearing house (ACH) transactions (both batch and real-time account-based payments). The company also offers other services, such as cyber and intelligence solutions.