Can India really overthrow Visa and Mastercard?

Long before the war in Ukraine, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided that international card networks could be used as instruments of statecraft — and that he should channel the rising economic power of his country’s 1.4 billion people to resist the dominance of Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc. and American Express Co. “Everyone cannot go to the border for the […]

Russian bank working to issue China’s UnionPay, domestic MIR cards after Visa, Mastercard exit

Following the suspension of operations in Russia by payment giants Visa and Mastercard, Russia’s state-owned Sberbank announced on Sunday that it is working on issuing payment cards using China’s UnionPay and Russia’s domestic Mir payment systems, Russian media reported. Sberbank also said in the statement that the suspension of Visa […]