11 stories tagged mastercard, newest first.
530 points by DeepLogin | 383 comments
ClassAction.org news article on a new lawsuit (The Pizza Standard LLC v. Visa Inc.) accusing Visa, Mastercard and major banks of anticompetitive merchant card fees.
20 points by vrganj | 15 comments
RTÉ news article reporting that European payment groups, including Bizum, are joining forces to challenge the dominance of US payment companies.
631 points by evakhoury | 378 comments
A blog post explaining what card networks like Visa and Mastercard do, distinguishing them from card issuers, banks, and payment processors.
886 points by healsdata | 700 comments
Les Numériques article (French) reporting that 130 million Europeans will move to a fully sovereign European payment system from 2026, reducing reliance on Visa and Mastercard.
358 points by wslh | 295 comments
News article from El Ciudadano about Brazil's Pix instant payment system facing pressure from Visa and Mastercard.
1031 points by NewCzech | 868 comments
European Business Magazine article on Europe's efforts to reduce reliance on Visa and Mastercard for its roughly $24 trillion in payments.
491 points by croes | 479 comments
PC Gamer article on Mastercard denying blame for NSFW game removals while Valve says payment processors cited a Mastercard brand-damage rule.
449 points by mrzool | 385 comments
Polygon news article on gamers mass-emailing and calling Visa and Mastercard to protest payment-processor pressure on Steam and itch.io over adult games.
338 points by bilekas | 223 comments
A Quartr Insights article examining how Visa and Mastercard came to form a global duopoly in card payment networks.
925 points by todsacerdoti | 228 comments
KrebsOnSecurity article on a MasterCard DNS server misconfiguration, a typo'd nameserver domain that went unnoticed for nearly five years until a researcher registered it.
533 points by gslin | 206 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Hayley Tsukayama arguing that Mastercard should stop selling cardholders' transaction data.