title: Affinity credit card
Citibank
Diners Club International
Robert Selander
Acquiring bank
Discover Financial
Bankcard
EnRoute (credit card)
St. Galler Kantonalbank Arena
Hyundai Card
sentences: An affinity credit card program allows an organization to offer its members and supporters—those who have an "affinity" for that organization—a credit card branded with the organization's brand and imagery.
 An affinity credit card program may pay the brand owning organization a bonus for each new account generated, plus a percentage of every transaction charged to the card.
 In some cases the brand-owning organization will form a revenue and profit sharing joint venture on a 50/50 basis.
 The venture is funded by the interchange income from the card scheme such as MasterCard or Visa, fees, charges and credit lent to cardholders.
Citibank is the consumer division of financial services multinational Citigroup.
 Citibank was founded in 1812 as the "City Bank of New York", later "First National City Bank of New York".
 Citibank provides credit cards, mortgages, personal loans, commercial loans, and lines of credit.
Diners Club International (DCI), founded as Diners Club, is a charge card company formed in 1950 by Frank X. McNamara, Ralph Schneider, Matty Simmons, and Alfred Bloomingdale.
 It was the first independent credit card company in the world, and it established the concept of a self-sufficient company producing credit cards for travel and entertainment.
 Diners Club International and its franchises service individuals from around the globe with operations in 59 countries.
Robert W. Selander was the President and Chief Executive Officer of MasterCard until 1 July 2010 when he was succeeded by Ajay Banga.
 He had held this position since April 1997.
 Before that he spent 20 years with Citibank, where he developed their global branch network and managed Citibank’s Diners Club International credit card business throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
An acquiring bank (also known simply as an acquirer) is a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant.
 The acquirer allows merchants to accept credit card payments from the card-issuing banks within an association.
 The best-known (credit) card associations are Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Indian Rupay, American Express, Diners Club, Japan Credit Bureau and China UnionPay.
Discover Financial Services, Inc. is an American financial services company, which issues the Discover Card and operates the Discover and Pulse networks, and owns Diners Club International.
 Discover Card is the third largest credit card brand in the United States, when measured by cards in force, with nearly 50 million cardholders.
Bankcard was a shared-brand credit card issued by financial institutions in Australia and New Zealand between 1974 and 2006.
 It was managed by the Bankcard Association of Australia, a joint venture of Australia's largest banks, and was the nation's first mass-market credit card.
 Before 1974, only store cards, Diners Club and American Express were available in Australia and these were either restrictive or only accessible to the wealthy.
 In the first decade after its introduction, Bankcard dominated the Australian credit card market, with more than 5 million cardholders at its peak in 1984.
 As a result of a declining cardholder base, falling transaction volumes and shrinking market share in relation to internationally accepted credit cards such as Visa and MasterCard, the card was withdrawn from use in 2006.
enRoute was a credit card issued by Air Canada until 1992, when the airline sold its credit card division to Diners Club.
St. Galler Kantonalbank Arena, formerly the Diners Club Arena, and originally known as Eishalle Lido, is an indoor sporting arena located in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
 The capacity of the arena is 6,100 and was built in 1987.
 It is the home arena of the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers ice hockey team.
 The arena was completely re-done in 2005, and changed its name following corporate sponsorship from Diners Club International.
 Its name was changed again in 2016 after a new sponsorship deal with naming rights was agreed with St. Galler Kantonalbank.
Hyundai Card (Hangul:현대카드) is a credit card company under Hyundai Motor Group headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
 In 1995, Hyundai Motor Group acquired Diners Club Korea, changed its name to Hyundai Card in 2001.
 In May 2003, the company introduced its signature ‘Hyundai Card M,” followed by a series of ‘alphabet cards.’
 The company’s strategic alliance with the GE Consumer Finance in October 2005 boosted the fledgling business in the heavily competitive Korean credit card market.

Question: Question: What year was the organization, in which Robert Selander managed the Diners Club International credit card business, founded? 

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 An affinity credit card program allows an organization to offer its members and supporters—those who have an "affinity" for that organization—a credit card branded with the organization's brand and imagery.
 An affinity credit card program may pay the brand owning organization a bonus for each new account generated, plus a percentage of every transaction charged to the card.
 In some cases the brand-owning organization will form a revenue and profit sharing joint venture on a 50/50 basis.
 The venture is funded by the interchange income from the card scheme such as MasterCard or Visa, fees, charges and credit lent to cardholders. 

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 Citibank is the consumer division of financial services multinational Citigroup.
 Citibank was founded in 1812 as the "City Bank of New York", later "First National City Bank of New York".
 Citibank provides credit cards, mortgages, personal loans, commercial loans, and lines of credit. 

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 Robert W. Selander was the President and Chief Executive Officer of MasterCard until 1 July 2010 when he was succeeded by Ajay Banga.
 He had held this position since April 1997.
 Before that he spent 20 years with Citibank, where he developed their global branch network and managed Citibank’s Diners Club International credit card business throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. 

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 An acquiring bank (also known simply as an acquirer) is a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant.
 The acquirer allows merchants to accept credit card payments from the card-issuing banks within an association.
 The best-known (credit) card associations are Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Indian Rupay, American Express, Diners Club, Japan Credit Bureau and China UnionPay. 

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 Discover Financial Services, Inc. is an American financial services company, which issues the Discover Card and operates the Discover and Pulse networks, and owns Diners Club International.
 Discover Card is the third largest credit card brand in the United States, when measured by cards in force, with nearly 50 million cardholders. 

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 enRoute was a credit card issued by Air Canada until 1992, when the airline sold its credit card division to Diners Club. 

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 St. Galler Kantonalbank Arena, formerly the Diners Club Arena, and originally known as Eishalle Lido, is an indoor sporting arena located in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
 The capacity of the arena is 6,100 and was built in 1987.
 It is the home arena of the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers ice hockey team.
 The arena was completely re-done in 2005, and changed its name following corporate sponsorship from Diners Club International.
 Its name was changed again in 2016 after a new sponsorship deal with naming rights was agreed with St. Galler Kantonalbank. 

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 Hyundai Card (Hangul:현대카드) is a credit card company under Hyundai Motor Group headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
 In 1995, Hyundai Motor Group acquired Diners Club Korea, changed its name to Hyundai Card in 2001.
 In May 2003, the company introduced its signature ‘Hyundai Card M,” followed by a series of ‘alphabet cards.’
 The company’s strategic alliance with the GE Consumer Finance in October 2005 boosted the fledgling business in the heavily competitive Korean credit card market. 

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Answer: 1812