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...Metris is the 11th-largest issuer of Mastercard and Visa credit cards in the US, with receivables of $5.9bn....
...Last month, Providian Financial, the San-Francisco based credit card issuer, agreed to be sold to Washington Mutual, a savings bank, for $6.5bn....
...BofA belongs to Visa's network of banks and MBNA is likely to hand over most of its business to Visa when it hands over control to BofA. “MasterCard just lost a board member bank to Visa....
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