Thread: Mastercard's "Fare Free Friday" for contactless travel - 14 & 28Nov
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Old November 10th 14, 08:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Mastercard's "Fare Free Friday" for contactless travel - 14 &

On 10/11/2014 21:25, wrote:

In article , (Mizter T) wrote:
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Alas, I'm 'with' Visa (which payment network a debit or credit card
is with is not something that exercises me a great deal!)

Oh, woe is me too! I have an HSBC credit which used to be
Mastercard but they switched me to Visa. Bother!

[...]
Visa Europe seems to have offered a pretty unbeatable deal to banks
for debit cards, as those that offered Maestro (nee Switch) mostly
defected to Visa a few years back - perhaps your credit card change
was a result of the same effect.

Dunno. HSBC never explained it.

Well, they wouldn't ("we're switching to Visa to save some money and
hence bump up our bottom line" isn't the kind of customer facing
communication banks really go in for!).
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