Hackernews posts about Visa/Mastercard

1. What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks (tautology.town)
   683 points by evakhoury 12 days ago | 404 comments
2. India's payments regulator rolls tap to pay outside Visa and Mastercard networks (twitter.com)
   3 points by villgax 8 days ago | 1 comments
3. Visa, MC launch international card payments in Syria after US lifts sanction (www.reuters.com)
   2 points by teleforce 3 days ago | discuss
4. Mastercard Joins Visa in Letting AI Bots Do Your Shopping (www.wsj.com)
   2 points by watchdogtimer 2 days ago | discuss
5. Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun (europeanbusinessmagazine.com)
   1132 points by NewCzech 7 months ago | 1030 comments
6. Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (www.lesnumeriques.com)
   959 points by healsdata 4 months ago | 777 comments
7. Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship (www.polygon.com)
   625 points by mrzool about 1 year ago | 589 comments
8. Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (www.elciudadano.com)
   396 points by wslh 5 months ago | 383 comments
9. Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024) (quartr.com)
   396 points by bilekas about 1 year ago | 305 comments
10. EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay (www.independent.ie)
    164 points by seanieb 9 months ago | 174 comments
11. Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mastercard (www.bloomberg.com)
    66 points by helsinkiandrew almost 2 years ago | 88 comments
12. Steam's fight against Visa, Mastercard, and censorship is only getting messier (www.polygon.com)
    59 points by HelloUsername about 1 year ago | 9 comments
13. Can Europe break free of Visa and Mastercard? MEPs stall digital euro (www.euronews.com)
    47 points by doener 7 months ago | 20 comments
14. Visa and Mastercard near deal with merchants that would change rewards landscape (www.wsj.com)
    36 points by josephcsible 11 months ago | 59 comments
15. Christine Lagarde wants EU to ditch Visa, Mastercard for own platform (www.businesstoday.in)
    33 points by belter over 1 year ago | 15 comments
16. UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears (www.theguardian.com)
    12 points by doener 7 months ago | 1 comments
17. Open Source Visa / Mastercard Competitor: Zenobia Pay (zenobiapay.com)
    12 points by rprend about 1 year ago | 1 comments
18. UK banks plan Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears (www.theguardian.com)
    10 points by tosh 7 months ago | 2 comments
19. Japanese platform DLsite unveils payment system after Visa and Mastercard bans (automaton-media.com)
    10 points by haunter 12 months ago | discuss
20. India's payment push is cutting out Visa and Mastercard (techcrunch.com)
    10 points by jmsflknr over 1 year ago | discuss
21. Retailers urge European Commission to crack down on Visa, Mastercard (www.reuters.com)
    7 points by doener over 1 year ago | 1 comments
22. Every major economy is trying to ditch Visa and Mastercard [video] (www.youtube.com)
    6 points by mgh2 6 months ago | discuss
23. Visa and Mastercard might have a deal to lower merchant fees (www.cnn.com)
    5 points by raw_anon_1111 10 months ago | 15 comments
24. Consortium including Visa, Mastercard jointly launch new global stablecoin (www.reuters.com)
    4 points by FergusArgyll 3 months ago | 2 comments
25. Adult game industry complaint to FTC regarding Visa/Mastercard (2025) [pdf] (avvn.org)
    4 points by Scaled 4 months ago | 1 comments
26. Securing agentic commerce: helping AI Agents transact with Visa and Mastercard (blog.cloudflare.com)
    4 points by WaitWaitWha 11 months ago | 1 comments
27. India's digital payments strategy is cutting out Visa and Mastercard (techcrunch.com)
    3 points by BIackSwan over 1 year ago | 1 comments
28. Cloudflare Partners with Visa, Mastercard, American Express for Agentic Commerce (www.cloudflare.com)
    3 points by ryanskidmore 11 months ago | discuss
29. Paylias: A payment network alternative to Visa and Mastercard (paylias.xyz)
    2 points by ziyadparekh about 1 year ago | 1 comments
30. Open Standard unveils dollar stablecoin backed by Visa and Mastercard (www.electronicpaymentsinternational.com)
    2 points by wslh 3 months ago | discuss
31. How close is the EU to break free from Visa and Mastercard's grip? (www.euronews.com)
    2 points by 202508042147 7 months ago | discuss
32. Visa and Mastercard Are Moving Fast into Stablecoins (www.theinformation.com)
    2 points by JumpCrisscross 10 months ago | discuss
33. Mastercard, Visa failed to stop payments on OnlyFans for child sex-abuse content (www.reuters.com)
    2 points by petethomas over 1 year ago | discuss
34. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    38 points by yawa_me_worht 9 months ago | 22 comments