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After helping connect 1 billion people and 65 million small businesses to the digital economy over the past decade, Mastercard has committed to connect another 500 million people and small businesses by 2030. This effort will help provide financial resilience to more of the 2...
Mastercard is reportedly looking to divest much of the real-time payments business it acquired from Denmark’s Nets Group in 2019, marking a significant strategic pivot away from certain European instant payment infrastructures and towards emerging digital asset opportunities. The potential sale, initially reported by The...
Every time an AI agent makes a purchase, three questions hang over the transaction. Did the consumer actually authorize this? Did the agent follow instructions exactly? And if something goes wrong, can anyone prove it? The payments, AI and merchant sectors are all looking for...
Card issuance has become one of the most direct ways for FinTechs to embed themselves into daily commerce. Whether the product is a digital wallet, a payroll card or a specialized spending account, cards remain the practical on-ramp to consumer adoption. Yet most FinTechs do...
Mastercard launched a portfolio of fleet management solutions in the Asia-Pacific region. Mastercard Fleet: Next Gen is designed for fleets of all sizes and brings together payments, data and controls, the company said in a Wednesday (Feb. 4) press release. The portfolio provides global acceptance...
Mastercard has introduced a new accreditation framework designed to streamline market entry for financial-technology startups in the United Kingdom, according to a Jan. 15 press release. The initiative, titled “BIN Sponsor Plus,” aims to connect FinTechs and other businesses with a vetted network of financial...
Mastercard has expanded its startup engagement program Start Path to include agentic commerce and services. This new part of the program will focus on agent platforms and agentic enablement, agent-native tools and services, and emerging agentic payment flows. Applications for the next cohort are open now, Mastercard...
Mastercard has granted a license to QNB Group, the largest financial institution in the Middle East and Africa, to extend its issuing and acquiring activities in Syria, a move intended to modernize the nation’s digital payments infrastructure. The agreement, posted in a news release on...
Watch more: Need to Know: Mastercard’s Marc Pettican Commercial card acceptance has been limited for years by myths and outdated assumptions. Acquirers have believed that commercial cards are too complex, too expensive and not margin rich enough to justify resources. Marc Pettican, global head of...