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		fmajid 23 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has... Europe had a payment processor in Europay, the E in EMV (Europay-MasterCard-Visa), but stupidly allowed MasterCard to acquire it.

globular-toast 22 days ago [–]

Hilarious. Someone would have got a nice retirement out of that. It's amazing that some people have the power to sell a slice of the entire population's financial transactions for the next 25 years.

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