The company is also resisting attempts to add compound interest to any award, which the court heard could push up the value of the claim by more than 2 GBP billion.
Lawyers pushed for the deceased to be included, questioned why death might time-bar a valid case and urged the tribunal either to certify the lawsuit with compound interest or defer the question to the trial tribunal.
Mastercard says it ‘fundamentally disagrees’ with the claim, stating that people received valuable benefits from its payments technology and that the lawsuit is driven by US lawyers and backed by organisations focused on making money for themselves.
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