Take 164 people split up into 29 teams, and add in 34.5 gallons of soda, 25.8 gallons of Red Bull, 173 rounds of Nerf gun ammo throughout 24 hours of intense developer activity. What do you get? The components of MasterCard’s Masters of Code, Hong...
MasterCard is teaming up with Silicon Valley Bank to once again power the highly selective, four-month virtual startup accelerator program called Commerce.Innovated. As the start of this year’s Spring Class is just around the corner, PYMNTS caught up with Gone!, a startup participant last year...
EMV-ready payment gateway provider Creditcall today announced that it has been chosen by Dutch contactless payment terminal provider Payter to enable the rollout of its new P6 series of contactless payment terminals. The P6 contactless payment terminal family will be used in unattended markets like...
MasterCard announced yesterday that it has appointed Betty DeVita as Chief Commercial Officer of MasterCard Labs in New York, the company's team dedicated to the research and development of global payment innovations. Prior to this new role, DeVita served as President of MasterCard Canada. Effective...
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...
Lots of people in the payments industry have a hard time distinguishing EMV – the standard – from EMV the application of the standard to chip-based cards. And, for that reason, confusion reigns! Is EMV relevant in an online world? How about at offline merchants...
ECommerce is growing rapidly, projected to reach $2.35 trillion in 2017. Online fraud, however, is growing even faster. As competition heats up in payments with Samsung, Google Wallet, Apple Pay, PayPal and other game changers, how should traditional card issuers keep up, drive customer loyalty...
This year’s Mobile World Congress may have ended a week ago, but post-conference conversations on where mobile’s going next abound. Following exciting, game-changing announcements made by MasterCard and other key players in the space, MPD CEO Karen Webster sat down with Jorn Lambert, Group Executive...
Maybe it’s time to start thinking about omnichannel a little differently. When the buzzword was first conceived, omnichannel was used to describe the imperative for retailers to follow the consumer across the physical and mobile/digital channels as they went about their shopping journey. The implications...
