Settlement Guarantee Management (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2016

Business Acquisition [Line Items]

Schedule of Customer Collateral

The Company maintained collateral as follows:

	June 30, 2016		September 30, 2015
	(in millions)
Cash equivalents	$	1,266	$	1,023
Pledged securities at market value	159		154
Letters of credit	1,275		1,178
Guarantees	1,365		971
Total	$	4,065	$	3,326

Visa Europe

Business Acquisition [Line Items]

Schedule of Customer Collateral

The balances above included collateral held by Visa Europe as follows:

	June 30, 2016
	(in millions)
Cash equivalents (1)	$	233
Pledged securities at market value	—
Letters of credit	164
Guarantees	326
Total	$	723

⁽¹⁾  Cash collateral held by Visa Europe is not included on the Company's unaudited consolidated balance sheet as its clients retain beneficial ownership and the cash is only accessible to the Company in the event of default by the client on its settlement obligations.