Tag: MasterCard
UK Questions Visa, Mastercard Cross-Border Fees
Visa and Mastercard pushed back against U.K. regulators examining 2021 cross-border fee hikes, saying the increases were triggered by the U.K.’s exit from the...
Swiss Watchdog Lifts Measures Against Mastercard
In 2021, Comco opened an investigation by taking provisional measures against Mastercard for a possible obstruction of SIX’s National Cash Scheme (NCS).
The Competition Commission...
Chile’s Competition Tribunal Orders Visa & Mastercard To Alter Payment Practices
Chile´s competition authority, the Tribunal for the Defense of Free Competition (TDLC) has issued a sentence regarding the procedures that will regulate payments systems...
UK Parliament Want Visa, Mastercard To Explain Swipe Fees Hike
On Wednesday (July 13), the Treasury Committee at the UK Parliament sent letters to Visa and Mastercard requesting them to explain their increases in cross-border interchange...
UK Regulator To Review Visa, Mastercard Processing & Swipe Fees
The U.K. Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) published on Tuesday (June 21) details of two market reviews that is planning to conduct later this year...
Australian Regulator Sues Mastercard For Anti-Competitive Practices
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Monday started legal proceedings in the Federal Court against Mastercard for allegedly stifling competition in the supply of debit...
Settlements OK’ed For Distribution In Credit Card Interchange Fees Class Action
Camp Fiorante Matthews announced today court approval of a plan for the distribution of settlement funds in the Canadian credit card interchange fees action....
Lawmakers Ask Mastercard, Visa To Cancel Credit Card Swipe Fee Increases
The National Retail Federation (NRF) has joined bipartisan U.S. lawmakers in calling for Mastercard and Visa to hold off on their planned credit card...
Visa, Mastercard Face New Class-Action Over Fees
A commercial litigator in the UK is filing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of a large group of clients contesting multilateral interchange fees (MIFs)...
UK Fines Mastercard Over Prepaid Cartel Activities
Five payment companies, including Mastercard, have been fined a total of more than £33 million (US$45 million) for operating illegal cartels when providing prepaid...
