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Forward-Looking Statements
This annual report contains forward-looking information pursuant to
the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. These forward-looking statements relate to MasterCard’s future
prospects, developments and business strategies and include, without
limitation, statements relating to:
• MasterCard’s performance against its long-term nancial
performance objectives;
• MasterCard’s growth opportunities related to trends in
personal consumption expenditure, movement from paper-based
transactions to electronic forms of payment and MasterCard’s
share of electronic payments;
• MasterCard’s ability to continue to capture growth and other new
opportunities by growing, diversifying and building its business and
leveraging its strategic initiatives, technology, data analytics and
security investments; and
• MasterCard’s ability to take advantage of new opportunities
to grow its U.S. debit business (including increasing the number
of U.S. debit cards carrying its brands).
Although MasterCard believes that its expectations are based on reasonable
assumptions, it can give no assurance that its objectives will be achieved.
Actual results may differ materially from such forward-looking statements
for a number of reasons, including changes in nancial condition, estimates,
expectations or assumptions, or changes in general economic or industry
conditions, or other circumstances such as those set forth in MasterCard
Incorporated’s lings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2011 (which is included in this annual report), Quarterly Reports on Form
10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K that it has led with the SEC in 2012.
MasterCard’s forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they
are made, and MasterCard undertakes no obligation to update publicly or
revise any forward-looking information.
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