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# Mastercard’s Marc Pettican on the road to a $17.4 trillion virtual card market

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**Published:** August 5, 2026  
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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

Every accounts payable and accounts receivable department runs on the same friction: invoices chased four or five times, payments late more than 30% of the time, and credit control teams that can run 20, 30, even 50 people deep at a mid-sized corporate. Virtual cards were built to solve exactly that problem, and the growth … Continue reading "Mastercard’s Marc Pettican on the road to a $17.4 trillion virtual card market" The post Mastercard’s Marc Pettican on the road to a $17.4 trillion virtual

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