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Customer Obligations
3.9 Additional Customer Obligations
3.9.2 Satisfaction of Minimum Customer Obligations
Within one year of becoming a Principal and Association and at all times
thereafter, each Principal and Association must itself, taken together with any
Affiliate(s) Sponsored by the Principal and Association as if they were a single
Customer, have satisfied the minimum obligations as may be established from
time to time and as set forth in the Standards or in a Customer agreement or
License.
3.9.3 Satisfaction of Minimum Financial Requirements
Each Customer at all times must satisfy the minimum financial requirements
established by the Corporation from time to time. The Corporation, in its
discretion, may establish different or additional financial requirements for
1. A category of financial institutions, organizations, or corporations or other
entities that are eligible to become a Customer; or
2. An individual Customer or prospective Customer in the manner set forth in
the Standards should the Corporation determine that different or additional
requirements are reasonably appropriate to evidence the financial integrity
of a type of Customer or an individual Customer or prospective Customer.
3.9.4 Integrity of Brand and Network
A Customer may not directly or indirectly engage in or facilitate any action
that is illegal, or that, in the opinion of the Corporation and whether or not
addressed elsewhere in the Standards, damages or may damage the goodwill or
reputation of the Corporation or of any Mark, and the Customer will promptly
cease engaging in or facilitating such action upon request of the Corporation.
In addition, a Customer may not place or cause to be placed on any Card or on
any POS Terminal or acceptance device any image, information, application, or
product that would in any way, directly or indirectly, have or potentially have
the effect of diminishing or devaluing the reputation or utility of the Marks, a
Card, or any of the Corporation’s products, programs, services, networks, or
systems.
NOTE
An addition to this Rule appears in Chapter 15, “United States Region Rules.”
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MasterCard Rules • 12 December 2012 3-17