"They have an ability to drive prices down because there will be multiple payment brands on every card, and on top of that, the merchants will have the ability to use the lowest-cost route of whatever payment network they choose".
There are multiple provider payment methods in the Ghanaian health system.
At a time when there are multiple options for payment methods, including PayU itself, there is potentially an opportunity to be able to make revenues by trying to play in as many of those transactions as possible.
When Chayes tried to generate a blacklist of especially nefarious Afghans, her efforts were blocked, because, she implies, the Central Intelligence Agency appeared to be making payments to multiple people on the list.
Still, many of those borrowers are making payments to multiple loan servicers.
A number of analysts have questioned the likelihood of Google's software moving that fast into consumer hardware but sources told tech website Neowin that Google was making payments to multiple vendors to ensure they included Android in their television hardware.
Stanton Glantz, a prominent anti-smoking activist and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, scorned such claims, saying there were multiple ways for tobacco companies to mask payments.
Another reason for the multiple payments is "to preclude Mr. Ivester from competing in the nonalcoholic beverage industry" until 2007, the spokesman said.
In November 2011, Cynthia Battle, an Education Department official, told college financial aid administrators that some 500,000 borrowers with federal student loans were being forced to make multiple monthly payments to different loan companies.
