Mastercard is asking some of Brazil’s largest payment processors to pay half the cost of its losses from the failure of Banco Master, Bloomberg reported Friday (May 22). Banco Master’s FinTech Will Financeira issued cards that used Mastercard’s network, and Will’s collapse left Mastercard on the hook to reimburse merchant acquirers that processed about 5 billion reais (about $997 […] The post Mastercard Pushes Brazilian Processors to Split Banco Master Losses appeared first on PYMNTS.com.
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