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...But investors in Visa and Mastercard can rest easy. Their high-margin business model remains intact....
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...Mastercard and Visa tend to get a bit huffy if you say any of this. They talk up convenience and service....
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...The best-known and biggest are Visa and Mastercard. National networks exist too, like UnionPay in China....
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...bypass card intermediaries to challenge the dominance of the Visa and Mastercard networks....
...Sears acquired Dean Witter and then Purcell had the idea in the 1980s to create the Discover card network to challenge the Visa and Mastercard duopoly....
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...The Home Office and Department of Health and Social Care had originally forecast that they would receive between 6,000 and 40,000 applications for the care worker visa route annually....
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