Visa, one of the world's most valuable payments companies, completed its initial public offering on which exchange in 2008?

Visa completed its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2008.

Visa's IPO took place on March 18, 2008, and raised approximately $17.9 billion. At the time, it was the largest U.S. initial public offering on record. Visa began trading under the ticker symbol V, a concise reference to the company's name.

The offering followed Visa's restructuring from an association of member financial institutions into a publicly traded corporation. Visa operates a global electronic payments network, but it generally does not issue cards or make consumer loans. Banks and other financial institutions issue Visa-branded cards, while merchants and payment providers connect through the network.

Visa is often confused with its main card-network rival, Mastercard. Both facilitate payments, but they are separate publicly traded companies. Visa's 2008 listing gave investors direct ownership in the network operator rather than in the banks that issue its cards.