Mastercard (MA) is looking to minimize its losses from Banco Master's failure by asking some of Brazil's largest payment processors to help foot the bill, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter and documents it viewed.
Mastercard was the network for the cards issued by Banco Master's fintech, Will Financeira, which collapsed and left the payment company responsible for reimbursing merchant acquirers that processed about 5 billion reais ($997 million) of cardholder payments, the report said.
Mastercard has already paid back payment processors for about half of that amount, but it's now proposing that it will use any money collected from card customers to reimburse itself before passing further funds to those merchant acquirers, the report said, citing the people and the documents.
Mastercard didn't immediately reply to requests for comment from.
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