I was going to say though, what about withdrawals? I mean given that a majority of customers use Visa debit / Electron (at worst, if those are still even issued?) then would it not effect ATMs? (I am only asking as I didn't even try to draw out money yesterday).
Only it is rather a compromising situation given that 99% of debit cards are all Visa based.
In fact Santander just recently announced that they were the first of the major banks to return to a MC debit card:
https://www.ft.com/content/7d6f5e48-...e-22951a2d8493
I can't C&P from that article as it violates the T&C of the Pearson group / FT but here is a more accessible link if you are not an FT subscriber:
https://news.sky.com/story/about-tur...-visa-11355944
This talks a lot about the discrepancy between payment processors.
Given the the processing system for an entire entity is Visa based, a failure from them does kind of disproportionately and unfairly effect MC I suppose. So technically MC users would have had to go to an ATM, draw out (off their debit card), then go back into a store and pay because a Visa PS failed. Seems pretty harsh but I have a conflict of interest given my visa cards / the products I have with them (even if the PS and PP trade as separate entities) so I am choosing not to be too angry about this (rather conveniently) after all, lol. (At least I am honest about it!) Sucks for Mastercard as a company.