Mastercard Payments Being Declined in Australia, Bank Says
THE SO WHAT
A global issue knocking out Mastercard payments for Australian customers is a live test of your dependency on a single card network. If you run consumer transactions, review your failover paths — alternative rails, offline modes, and customer comms — before an upstream outage makes the choice for you.
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