MasterCard


Mastercard is a leading global payments & technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, issuers & governments around the world. Mastercard Incorporated is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in the Mastercard International Global Headquarters in Purchase, New York, United States.

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Network Tokenization and Digital Identities Are Quietly Transforming Payment Security
Network Tokenization and Digital Identities Are Quietly Transforming Payment Security
January 05, 2024  |  Payments Innovation

One innovation above all others dominated the headlines in 2023: artificial intelligence (AI). But while AI, particularly its impact on the payments landscape, captured public...

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CE 100 Index: AI, Banks and BNPL Names Were Standouts During 2023’s 42% Rally 
CE 100 Index: AI, Banks and BNPL Names Were Standouts During 2023’s 42% Rally 
January 04, 2024  |  Connected Economy

The CE 100 Index soared in 2023, largely on the wings of widespread rallies among banking and buy now, pay later (BNPL) names, up double...

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Holiday Online Retail Sales Jump 6.3% Amid ‘Deliberate’ Spending
Holiday Online Retail Sales Jump 6.3% Amid ‘Deliberate’ Spending
December 26, 2023  |  Retail

American consumers upped their holiday spending this year, doing a lot of that spending online. That’s according to preliminary results from Mastercard’s SpendingPulse released Tuesday (Dec....

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Spend Management Got More Granular and More Important in 2023
Spend Management Got More Granular and More Important in 2023
December 22, 2023  |  B2B Payments

Where a business spends money tends to define its go-forward strategy. But often where enterprise spend disappears to is opaque, with some departments sending checks...

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Card Interchange Fee Debate Confuses Costs With Who Pays Them
Card Interchange Fee Debate Confuses Costs With Who Pays Them
December 21, 2023  |  Credit Cards

Card interchange fees have fierce defenders and heated detractors. Turn on the financial news, and commentary might touch on whether cards are “free” — and...

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Onbe and CardCash Partner to Offer Instant Virtual Cards
Onbe and CardCash Partner to Offer Instant Virtual Cards
December 20, 2023  |  Partnerships

Onbe and CardCash partnered to enable consumers to exchange their unwanted gift cards for instant virtual cards. With instant payouts on virtual Mastercard cards, consumers...

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British Payment Regulator Calls for Cross-Border Card Fee Cap
British Payment Regulator Calls for Cross-Border Card Fee Cap
December 13, 2023  |  Regulation

Visa and Mastercard are under pressure to cap cross-border merchant fees in the U.K. The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) on Wednesday (Dec. 13) published an update to its review of cross-border...

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Mastercard and Consumers International Team to Improve Consumer Protection
Mastercard and Consumers International Team to Improve Consumer Protection
December 07, 2023  |  Partnerships

Mastercard has teamed with Consumers International to improve protections for vulnerable consumers in the digital finance space. The project, announced Thursday (Dec. 7) and part of the Mastercard...

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Expense Management Firm Emburse and Mastercard Streamline Reconciliations
Expense Management Firm Emburse and Mastercard Streamline Reconciliations
December 07, 2023  |  B2B Payments

Travel and expense (T&E) management firm Emburse has joined forces with Mastercard to offer enhanced security, proactive spend control and transaction data for its Emburse...

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