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Mastercard, Visa refocus on new shot at dialing down UK card-fees litigation risk

By Simon Zekaria ( March 20, 2026, 15:38 GMT | Comment) -- Mastercard and Visa’s successful bid for permission to challenge a UK ruling that their card fees violate competition rules offers them a route to try to push back down heightened risk from years of card-fee litigation. But the payment-card giants will have to prepare for an upcoming UK appeal in the face of unrelenting claim pressure from a slew of retailers.March 17 saw the latest in a long line of UK judicial interventions affecting Mastercard and Visa's litigation risk over card fees, and both for the companies and for claimants pursuing damages from them, the importance is hard to overstate....

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