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Mastercard Explores Divestiture of Nets Real-Time Payments Unit

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Published 2026-03-26 20:19 UTCUpdated 2026-03-27 16:30 UTC
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Mastercard is reportedly looking to divest much of the real-time payments business it acquired from Denmark’s Nets Group in 2019, marking a significant strategic pivot away from certain European instant payment infrastructures and towards emerging digital asset opportunities.

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Why Mastercard paid double for stablecoin infrastructure it could have built
CoinDeskGlobal · coindesk.com · 2026-03-27 16:30 UTC
Mastercard Explores Divestiture of Nets Real-Time Payments Unit
PYMNTS · pymnts.com · 2026-03-27 10:41 UTC
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