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Net income rose to $AUD428 million from $AUD231 million, the company said.
As the world's second-largest credit-card network after Visa MasterCard, has beaten analysts' profit estimates every quarter since the company went public in 2006, after which its share price exploded a massive 500 per cent.
For its part Visa, reported a quarterly profit rise of 28 per cent to $AUD336 million yesterday.