Or maybe it helped OF, because they got to call out Mastercard / Visa and maybe negotiate a better deal out of it?
>“We’re already fully compliant with the new Mastercard rules, so that had no bearing on the decision,” he said.
https://www.ft.com/content/7b8ce71c-a87a-440e-9f3d-58069ca04...
> “We’re already fully compliant with the new Mastercard rules, so that had no bearing on the decision,”
Reading between the lines, that could easily mean "We're already fully compliant with MC's rules but they still won't let the banks do business with us, so we needed to put publish pressure on MC"
tldr: Financial transactions for porn suffer VERY high cashback rates so traditional payment operators do NOT like them because they become expensive to them VERY quickly.