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Card fees were ‘procompetitive,’ MasterCard insists in final defense against Sainsbury claim (update*)

By Sille Ruubel ( March 15, 2016, 17:22 GMT | Insight) -- MasterCard told a London court today that its card fees had never restricted competition in the UK and were actually "procompetitive." Opening its final arguments against a multimillion-pound damage claim from supermarket chain J Sainsbury, the card company again insisted that cutting the fees would have prevented it from competing with other payment networks.MasterCard told a London court today that its card fees had never restricted competition in the UK and were actually "procompetitive." ...

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