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MasterCard Fined $648 Million for High EU Card Fees (bloomberg.com)
MasterCard was fined 570.6 million euros ($648 million) by the European Union for imposing rules that regulators said may have artificially raised the costs of card payments in the region. From a report: The European Commission said MasterCard unfairly prevented retailers from seeking cheaper rates from banks outside the EU country where they are based. MasterCard's curbs on cross-border acquiring ended when the EU introduced credit card legislation in 2015. The EU's probe started in 2013 and escalated with a statement of objections two years later. MasterCard last month set aside $650 million to cover the fine, less than a potential 1 billion euros it flagged as a possibility in 2017. The company got a 10 percent fine reduction for cooperating with the EU, regulators said.
I can't believe a credit card company would have high card fees. At least that sounds like an EU problem. They never do that kind of stuff in the US.
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The credit card market is an oligopoly and therefore must be regulated. The EU is right to force Mastercard into lowering its fees.
Sounds to me they are just closing down an ATM where big corporations leech from the population.
Yes mate that's it. The European Regional Development Fund doesn't exist and the poor widdle UK is being oppressed by those nasty foreigners.