Executive Summary

Your ability to successfully compete in both consumer and business-to-business markets has become increasingly challenging. Pressure continues to mount to introduce new and differentiated products and services that are cost-effective, acquire customers, increase usage, reduce attrition, and ultimately increase profitable revenue.

You must find ways to not only continue to grow your business, but also meet various cardholders’ needs. Consumers want flexible, personalized and convenient financial management tools, while business customers want to reduce fraud, streamline payments, and ensure control and compliance with company policies.

An empowering solution: MasterCard inControl

A powerful, flexible platform, MasterCard inControl provides an array of advanced authorization, transaction routing and alert controls designed to assist you in creating new and enhanced payment products. Scalable and fully customizable, it helps you launch new and enhanced products more quickly and cost-effectively. Beyond cost-efficiencies and speed-to-market benefits, the platform can extend card programs into new payment categories with enhanced controls and other features, resulting in the potential for new revenue opportunities.

Through our partnership with payments solutions provider Orbiscom, MasterCard inControl fully integrates Orbiscom’s patented payment technologies with our unparalleled global processing platform and capabilities. MasterCard inControl offers both “off-the-shelf” as well as customizable solutions depending on customer needs. With MasterCard inControl, you can leverage a seamless and turnkey solution.

Differentiate your brand and help grow your business

Among the advanced new features that can be leveraged in support of consumer or commercial card portfolios are:

• Enhanced authorization controls that direct how, when, and where cards may be used to a greater level of specificity than previously supported.
• Intelligent routing capability that enables a transaction to be routed through to the appropriate funding source at authorization time, depending on the transaction characteristics.
• Robust alert functionality that provides personalized, real-time communication on transaction activities
• A one-time use number feature that allows authorization, spending limits and controls to be set on a transaction-by-transaction basis, providing enhanced levels of security, control, data capture and traceability on every purchase.

Numerous features are available with MasterCard inControl that you can 'turn-on' or combine to develop new applications based on your business needs or customer requirements. Whether utilizing off-the-shelf features or designing new applications, MasterCard inControl empowers you to develop differentiated solutions that help drive business growth.

The possibilities are endless with MasterCard inControl

With its flexible capabilities, MasterCard inControl puts you in control of how you want to develop and manage your payment programs.MasterCard inControl takes developing new products or enhancing existing products to a completely new level.

Increase control and convenience

MasterCard inControl features can be used to offer small business owners and consumer cardholders more security, control over spending, and convenience. For example, small business owners can benefit from enhanced controls on pre-set spending limits and other parameters on payments cards for their employees.

Reduce fraud, streamline payments

When used by companies as a Web-based workflow tool or accounts payable tool, MasterCard inControl features can help reduce fraud, ensure compliance, streamline payments, and automate reconciliation.

Configure your advantage with MasterCard inControl

MasterCard inControl can be leveraged to deliver a unique value proposition for your customers while enabling you to differentiate your business in ways that are only by your imagination. Call you MasterCard Account Manager today to learn more about how MasterCard inControl can help you configure your advantage.

General Company Information

About MasterCard Worldwide

MasterCard Worldwide advances global commerce by providing a critical economic link among financial institutions, businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide. As a franchisor, processor and advisor, MasterCard develops and markets payment solutions, processes over 22 billion transactions each year, and provides industry-leading analysis and consulting services to financial-institution customers and merchants. Powered by the MasterCard Worldwide Network and through its family of brands, including MasterCard®, Maestro® and Cirrus®, MasterCard serves consumers and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. For more information, go to www.mastercard.com. Follow us on Twitter: @mastercardnews.

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