October 03, 2022
Mastercard Adds New, Expanded Benefits for Small Business Cardholders
Aiming to help small- to medium-sized business (SMB) owners enhance their operations and boost their digital capabilities, Mastercard has announced several new and expanded benefits available to its SMB cardholders...
September 30, 2022
QR Codes’ Growing Popularity Extends to Crypto Payments
Utah Jazz fans who want to buy non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite players must go no further than their stadium seats. As part of the NBA team’s move to...
September 29, 2022
Mastercard, Inswitch Team on Embedded Payments Across LatAm
Inswitch, a FinTech focused on embedded solutions for banking and payments, is partnering with Mastercard on digital payment solutions and issuing programs, a press release said. Inswitch will start issuing...
September 29, 2022
Walmart, Disney, Nike Push Further Into Metaverse
Walmart jumped into the metaverse this week with two new spaces in Roblox, the non-blockchain metaverse game which claims 52 million daily active users. “Walmart Land” and “Walmart’s Universe of...
September 29, 2022
PSPs Are Making Stablecoin Payments a Reality
It’s been easy to say that all the dire predictions about stablecoins taking over payments and pushing out national currencies were wildly overblown as their actual use outside of crypto...
September 28, 2022
Dubai Ramps Up Efforts to Become Global Metaverse Capital
As key players converge on Wednesday (Sep. 28) for the Dubai Metaverse Assembly, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is making a bid to claim the title...
September 27, 2022
Stablecoins Seeks to Break into Gig Economy
As the gig economy explodes and goes global, companies are finding it necessary to pay people farther and farther abroad, which can get more and more complex the farther you...
September 27, 2022
Today in the Connected Economy: DoorDash Unveils Its First Credit...
Today in the connected economy, DoorDash teams with Chase and Mastercard to unveil its first-ever credit card. Plus, Uber Eats rolls out new point-of-sale offerings in hopes of wooing tech-weary...
September 27, 2022
NFT-Personalized Debit Cards Make Debut
Mastercard will now let cardholders put their non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on their cryptocurrency debit cards, the company said, bringing avatars like Bored Apes and their use as profile pictures (PFPs)...