Safety and Security

How MasterCard Will Bring Tokenization To Asia-Pacific
March 17, 2015

Across the Asia-Pacific region, each market is on its own path to secure digital transactions. In Australia, two-thirds of MasterCard transactions are already contactless in-store payments. In more emerging markets like Indonesia, consumers are just getting online to transact with mobile devices, but are well...

Company Spotlight
How MasterCard Is Taking Biometrics To The Masses
February 23, 2015

It’s been a little over a week since The White House Cybersecurity Summit, during which U.S. President Barack Obama called upon tech and financial companies to band together to protect consumers from cyber attacks. Among initiatives highlighted during the Summit was MasterCard’s $20 million investment...

Company Spotlight
MasterCard Provides EMV Credit and Debit Cards to First Tech Credit Union
February 05, 2015

First Tech Federal Credit Union announced yesterday that it has entered a new agreement with MasterCard as its payment solution provider, according to a company release. MasterCard will offer “convenience, control and security” for First Tech’s more than 380,000 members, enabling the credit union to...

The Roadmap For Keeping U.S. Payments Secure
December 16, 2014

The U.S. Payments Security Task Force (PST) was established earlier this year and dared to go where no task force has ever gone before: it has created a roadmap for protecting cardholder data at the merchant point of sale. It was a pretty daunting assignment....

The Top 3 Payments Security Threats This Holiday Season
November 24, 2014

Nearly half of consumers said they would “definitely” or “probably not” shop over the holidays at retailers that experiences data breaches, according to a recent survey. Consumers still need reassurance from the retail world that these breaches won’t happen, says Ajay Bhalla, President, Enterprise Safety...

Apple Pay
MasterCard: Security Is Nice, Functionality Is Better
November 21, 2014

MasterCard sees mobile payment security as crucial, but it’s power is relevant only to the point that shoppers are actually using it. And with Apple Pay, that is starting to happening meaningfully. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

When’s A Token Not A Token?
October 31, 2014

There are three things that consumers, merchants, issuers and card networks all want from a payments experience: that it be secure, that it be easy to use and that it be available to consumers at all of the places they want to shop. The payments...

Mastercard
Fighting Digital Attacks, MasterCard Style
October 03, 2014

MasterCard Thursday (Oct. 2) announced the launch of SafetyNet, which it said was a preemptive security system “to identify potential attacks before they start and in some cases before the bank or processor is even aware.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

Innovation
Smile! MasterCard Toys With Mobile Facial Recognition For Payments
September 22, 2014

MasterCard is labeling “successful” a biometrics payments trial (facial plus voice) where more than 14,000 transactions were confirmed in a closed iOS and Android pilot using only MasterCard employees, according to a Computerworld report. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...