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<div style><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:13px"><br></span></div><div style><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:13px">Nigeria govt, Mastercard partner to pilot electronic IDs with e-payment functionality</span><br>
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<div style><font color="#001320" face="Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:13px">"Mastercard does not handle the biometric data," she said. "We are strictly confined to the payment technology on the chip."</span></font></div>
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It is not clear if Mastercard has developed an actual payment/verification network in Nigeria, after registering a local firm/subsidiary in Nigeria.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,19,32);font-family:Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:13px">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,19,32);font-family:Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:13px">In another (long article, last few paragraphs) article, the largest US retailer is building their own payment network (a very expensive venture)...</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,19,32);font-family:Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:13px"><br></div><div style><font color="#001320" face="Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:13px"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/02/20/mastercard-visa-explain-why-your-credit-card-isnt-safer/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/02/20/mastercard-visa-explain-why-your-credit-card-isnt-safer/</a></span></font><br>
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