Cartes Bancaires (CB) Definition.

“Cartes Bancaires,” France’s domestic card scheme, created in 1984 and governed by GIE CB: about 76 million cards and roughly 15 billion transactions a year. Nearly all CB cards are co-badged with Visa or Mastercard, with CB used as the priority brand for domestic transactions. Its domestic interchange is lower than that of the international schemes, which gives French merchants a cost advantage.