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RETRIEVED 17 August 2026 AND NOT YET OPENED. Reading owed. THE ACQUIRING ARRANGEMENT THE BRIEF ASKS FOR MUST COME FROM THE CARD SCHEME OR THE ACQUIRING BANK, not from a headline using the verb rejoins.
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READ 17 August 2026 at its account of the sequence; datePublished 2026-05-11T22:55:51+00:00. IT SEPARATES FOUR STAGES INSIDE THREE DAYS, which is the discipline the brief demands and which the headline verb 'rejoins' destroys: Mastercard completed technical integration on the FRIDAY, 8 May 2026; the Central Bank said on the SATURDAY, 9 May, that local banks could now connect to international payment networks; and AS OF THE SUNDAY, 10 May, Qatar National Bank had launched card acceptance and digital payment services. It also reports that Visa partnered with the Central Bank on a roadmap for rebuilding the payment system. TECHNICAL INTEGRATION, REGULATORY PERMISSION, ONE TRIAL TRANSACTION AND ONE BANK'S LAUNCH ARE FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS. This is a trade report of what was said and done, not a card scheme's own statement; the acquiring arrangement itself is still to be retrieved from Mastercard or from QNB.
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