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Card payments news: Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay, Amex, interchange, acceptance, tokenisation and card issuing.
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Mastercard makes offline payments mandatory for new cards and terminals in Europe
Mastercard will require every new European card from February 2027, and new terminals from May 2027, to approve payments of up to €200 during outages.
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Stablecoins hit the plumbing: OUSD goes live, Swift’s ledger runs, Australia bans surcharges
In Sibos week, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase launched a shared dollar token, Swift’s ledger ran live tokenised deposits, Lloyds settled with Visa in USDC, and…
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Australia ends card surcharges on Visa, Mastercard, eftpos and Amex payments
Australian merchants can no longer surcharge Visa, Mastercard, eftpos or Amex payments from October 1, and the RBA is also cutting interchange caps.
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