The
company's net income rose to $890 million, or 79 cents per
share, in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 from $801 million, or
69 cents per share, a year earlier.
MasterCard's gross dollar volume — the total value of
transactions made by its customers — rose 12 percent to $1.2
trillion on a local currency basis.
(Reporting By Sudarshan Varadhan and Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru;
Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
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