@anubis2814 @BryanRombough Cute. But seriously, Capital One bought Discover, right? Well, name isn't important, two things are important, one, they're the world's largest issuer of MasterCards, and the second is that they bought Discover. Until the second thing, the first didn't really matter, if Mastercard kicked them to the curb, Visa would do the same, and they'd be out of business, but now? They have their own card network that's nearly as successful as MC in the US, this means MC needs them more than they need MC now. Or they could just allow Discover card users to use their cards as they see fit, they'd make money hand over fist doing that, and losing MC isn't necessarily so bad, when you have such a large network to tap into for payment.

Thing is, someone needs to convince Discover to offer this kind of support, this kind of promise that they won't interfere with business' business.