Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Mastercard Q4 and full-year 2020 earnings conference call. [Operator instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker for today, War Kneeshaw, head of investor relations. Thank you. Please go ahead, sir.
War Kneeshaw
Head of Investor Relations
Thank you, Tanya. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our fourth-quarter 2020 earnings call. We hope you re all safe and sound. With me today are Michael Miebach, our chief executive officer; and Sachin Mehra, our chief financial officer.
Following comments from Michael and Sachin, the operator will announce your opportunity to get into the queue for the Q&A session. It is only then that the queue will open for questions. You can access our earnings release, supplemental performance data and the slide deck that accompany this call in the investor relations section of our website, mastercard.com. Additionally, the r
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NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ MoffettNathanson, LLC announced today that Lisa Ellis has been elected to the position of General Partner. She is the first new General Partner to be elected since the firm s founding in 2013.
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Visa and Plaid have called off their merger because of federal antitrust opposition to the deal.
The companies struck an agreement to merge a year ago, with Visa (ticker: V) agreeing to pay $5.3 billion for the payments-technology company. Plaid verifies and links accounts on apps like
PayPal Holdings ’ (PYPL) Venmo service with a user’s bank account. Visa and
Mastercard (MA) had both invested in Plaid, which began in 2012.
But in November, the Justice Department sued to block the merger, arguing that Visa was a monopolist in online debit controlling 70% of transactions and that Plaid aimed to challenge Visa’s dominance.