It's a possible but hardly compelling: Facebook: ~ 1 billion customers Visa: ~2 billion cards out there. Facebook: ? merchants. Visa: > 10 million merchants

It's a possible but hardly compelling: Facebook: ~ 1 billion customers Visa: ~2 billion cards out there. Facebook: ? merchants. Visa: > 10 million merchants. Facebook: potentially disruptive to the existing market Visa: 50+ years experience with electronics payments processing, fraud detection, government relations and consumer credit marketing Facebooks main competitive advantage is(was?) relatively cheap capital. http://corporate.visa.com/_media/visa-fact-sheet.pdf http://corporate.visa.com/_media/visa-fact-sheet.pdf Edit: Corrected years, added reference