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by ianburrell 3738 days ago
There is no backing credit card with Google Wallet Card. The card is debit card for the balance in Google Wallet. The Google Wallet balance could be transferred from bank accounts or debit card, or from credit cards with fee.

The confusion is that Google Wallet app did both the Wallet transfers and NFC payments. Before Android Pay, the NFC payments used virtual credit cards.

The send money functionality for Google Wallet still exists. It is now the only purpose of the separate Wallet app.