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MasterCard profit jumps 15.5 pct as card usage rises

30/10/2014 - 13:10

(Reuters) - MasterCard Inc, the world's second-largest debit and credit card company, posted a 15.5 percent rise in quarterly profit as more customers used its cards to make purchases.

The company's net income rose to $1.02 billion, or 87 cents per share, in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 from $879 million, or 73 cents per share, a year earlier.

Net revenue rose 12.8 percent to $2.5 billion.

(Reporting by Amrutha Gayathri in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)