The MATCH list is a Mastercard system that operates within the card network and acquiring bank infrastructure. Its function is to alert acquiring banks to merchants who have been terminated for qualifying violations, so that those banks can decline to underwrite new merchant accounts for listed businesses. The system works because conventional payment processing runs through acquiring banks that are required to check the list. A payment infrastructure that does not involve an acquiring bank is outside the system the MATCH list was designed to govern.
Cryptocurrency payment processing confirms transactions on the blockchain network without routing through an acquiring bank. There is no step in the 27 Blockchain integration process where a check against the Mastercard MATCH list occurs, because 27 Blockchain is not an acquiring bank and does not operate within the card network infrastructure that the MATCH list governs. A merchant on the MATCH list can be integrated into 27 Blockchain's crypto payment gateway on the same terms as any other merchant. The MATCH list placement affects what the merchant can do within the conventional card processing system. It does not affect what the merchant can do on the blockchain.
