When a “Global Standard” Is Not Neutral: Visa, Mastercard, and Scheme-led territories

This free mini case study examines how global schemes, Visa and Mastercard, define and apply a standard, as a set of operational rules across regions and territories in the global card payments business.

This 13-page case study explores how the definition of territories is anything but neutral.
It breaks down the initial assumption that global schemes are neutral by default because they are standard, and then explains the mechanism behind this assumption and what users can do to better master this specificity of scheme-led governance.

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