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Tag: Mastercard
While America Litigates, Australia Legislates: The $200 Billion Swipe-Fee Fight and the Reform Landing Here in 11 Days
US retailers just told a court they would rather risk trial than accept a $200 billion swipe-fee settlement. Australia took the other road entirely — and its version arrives on 1 October. Here is what the contrast reveals.
Mastercard Just Entered the Wallet Wars — Meet Wallet Pay
On 10 September Mastercard launched Wallet Pay, a platform built to stitch the world's fragmented digital wallets into one interoperable network across 200-plus countries. It is a direct answer to Apple's grip on the phone — and it matters for Australian travellers and the merchants who serve them.
AI Agents Now Have Wallets: Inside the Alliance Visa and Mastercard Just Joined
A new coalition wants to standardise how AI agents spend your money — and the two biggest card networks on earth just signed up. Here is what agentic payments really mean, and why Australian merchants should care.
Visa and Mastercard’s Stablecoin Strategy: Bet on Every Horse
The card giants are joining Circle’s Arc blockchain and buying up crypto infrastructure — a deliberate “multi-coin, multi-chain” play to stay essential no matter which stablecoin wins.
The Mastercard Outage Was Short. The Dependency It Exposed Isn’t
A failed Mastercard system update interrupted Australian payments. The useful question is how merchants design for the next failure.
A Customer Admitted the Chargeback Was Wrong. The Merchant Still Lost
An Australian merchant supplied written proof that a chargeback was accidental and still lost the dispute. That is a process failure, not consumer protection.