Former executive admits in Australian court to misleading Mastercard finance team
By Saloni Sinha ( May 11, 2026, 08:01 GMT | Insight) -- A former Mastercard executive admitted in an Australian court on Monday that he provided false information to Mastercard’s finance department to help secure approval for a major 7-Eleven strategic merchant deal. In an ongoing Federal Court trial, former Mastercard business development executive Chris Ponton Dwyer accepted that a statement he made internally about the threat of merchant routing transactions to Eftpos “wasn’t true.”A former Mastercard executive admitted in an Australian court on Monday that he provided false information to Mastercard’s finance department to help secure approval for a major 7-Eleven strategic merchant deal....
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