One of the two most popular payment giants, MasterCard and VISA, recently decided to group cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offering (ICO) jurisdictions in a new “high risk” category. The crypto news has spread all around the web, mainly driven by the latest fluctuation in the prices of Bitcoin and other altcoins.
First reported by a financial trading news site called Finance Magnates, the news spread like wildfire, especially because MasterCard earlier this year proposed a classification which became public in May 2018.
According to the registry, binary options, CFDs, forex, cryptocurrency options, and ICOs will now fall under a new category labeled as “High-Risk Securities Merchants” starting on October 12 and with the subject to additional monitoring.
This grouping, according to the source, means that chargebacks could now be executed up to 540 days after the actual date of the transaction. As anonymous sources familiar with the matter confirmed, the new classification will reportedly start today – Monday, October 15th.
Aside from MasterCard and its initiative to monitor cryptos, ICOs, forex, and binary options, VISA also stopped supporting crypto debit cards in a partnership with the debit card provider WaveCrest in January 2018, blocking the cards associated with products such as CryptoPay, Bitwala, TenX, Wirex, and others.
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