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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10823

10 April 2013
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) competition
Investigation into Mastercard's inter-bank fees

Brussels, 09/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 9 April 2013, the European Commission decided to launch a formal investigation to investigate whether MasterCard violated EU anti-trust rules by abusing its dominant position in the European Economic Area (EEA). It suspects that the inter-bank fees used by MasterCard are anti-competitive. The Commission is also examining similar inter-bank fees used by Visa (see EUROPE 10667).

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