Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, one of several Republicans who welcomed the news, said in a statement on Thursday that the major credit companies “came to the correct conclusion.”
“However, they shouldn’t just ‘pause’ their implementation of this plan – they should end it definitively,” he added.
While all the top payment networks had said they would adopt the new code only the smallest, Discover, had given a public timetable for doing so, in April, and said it was only following the lead of others.
