Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle reports that last Tuesday, a federal judge told Visa and MasterCard that they will have to go to trial to prove they did not conspire to monopolize the lucrative debit-card market. The background is that since quite some years, Visa and Mastercard forced merchants that accepted credit-cards to also accept debit-cards with the Visa and Mastercard logo (not allowing merchants the choice to deny the debit-card while accepting the credit-card).
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