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Economist: MasterCard IPO - Why?

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The Economist speculates on reasons behind MasterCard's upcoming IPO.

But why, you might ask, would MasterCard's owners, who know a thing or two about finance, want to let it go? Why sell a fast-growing business, especially one whose scale and open, co-operative structure has allowed individual member banks to run their own, nicely profitable credit-card operations?


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