MasterCard announced yesterday that it will be teaming up with Silicon Valley Bank to offer a virtual, four-month program designed to help commerce-focused startups prosper. Dubbed Commerce.Innovated, the program is highly selective and is based on the level of innovation a startup's solution involves. It...
MasterCard’s Masters of Code Hackathon Series officially kicks off today in Sydney, Australia, focusing first on mobile commerce innovation. Following Sydney, the Series will move to other parts of the world, encompassing themes like security, financial inclusion and commerce innovation. In a recent interview, Mario...
Tim Cook may say that 2015 is the “Year of Apple Pay” but 2015 might be the year in which the split between card-present, NFC, in-store, card-not-present, online and in-app, begin to disappear, Matt Barr, SVP of Emerging Payments for the U.S., MasterCard told MPD...
Consumers are constantly looking for ways to simplify their lives; this includes everything from online banking to public transit. MasterCard now has their hand in each of these scenarios. The company announced today that it’s joining forces with Masabi, provider of mobile ticketing for transit,...
There are over 1.3 million software engineers in the world, including coders, but who are the Top 10 and where they can be found? MasterCard has designed a series of hackathons that will travel the world in search of the very best developers, designers and...
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MasterCard is turning plastic, digital. It wants the world to say goodbye to “static” cards and hello to a new age of digital, “dynamic” interactive cards – an innovation that MasterCard Group Exec, Global Credit and Debit Products Carlos Menendez says is part of a...
What’s the next step a company should take in the evolution of corporate travel? According to Richard Crum, Group Head, Global T&E Products & Solutions, MasterCard, it’s to implement individual virtual card accounts. That very step, he says, will boost travel expense management, allow for...
Omnichannel isn’t just a retail phenomenon. Issuers have a big a challenge – and opportunity – in adapting their customer acquisition and servicing plans to a new cross channel customer, says SVP of Global Customized Marketing, Margot Vaughan. Vaughan sat down with MPD CEO Karen...
