Say mPOS and an image of a phone and a dongle probably flash across your mind. But what if all a merchant needed to accept payments was a phone — and an app? James Hicks, EVP Global Acceptance and Solutions at Mastercard, shared the details of...
On a dirt path that passes for a street in a Kenyan refugee camp, a merchant sells grains he bought from a local farmer outside the settlement. To call it an “economy” would be euphemistic, but it’s a living, and it’s enough to support his...
Now spanning more than 80 cities, Mastercard’s contactless payments system is helping shift daily commuting into the digital realm. Will Judge, VP of Enterprise Partnerships/head of Urban Mobility at Mastercard, told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster about the challenges and processes of getting millions of people where...
In the early days of the internet, passwords were relatively friction-free for one reason: there weren’t a lot of places on the internet to use them, so remembering a slew of them wasn’t hard — because it wasn’t necessary. But as time passed and the internet exploded, consumers were faced...
Installment loans in retail are not new – they’ve been around in some form for the last three or four decades. But as Divido co-founder Christer Holloman told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster in the “In Their Own Words” podcast, innovation in the area had been almost completely...
Today Mastercard is officially launching the Mastercard B2B Hub, a new solution designed to make it easier for SMBs to invoice and process payments with accounts payable. The Hub also comes built in with online payment automation tools that improve the speed, ease and security of...
If you hadn’t heard the news about Dunkin’ Donuts accepting Masterpass as a payment method in-store, in their mobile app and online, it’s quite possible that you may have already started seeing the ads. Themed on “winning the morning,” the ads feature harried adults on...
To paraphrase a famous poet, the best laid travel plans of mice and men often go awry. With apologies to Robert Burns (we threw in another rhyming Robert for our headline), it is the planning and the scheduling and the booking and the paying that...
Mastercard today announced the appointment of CIO Ed McLaughlin to president, Operations and Technology. In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, McLaughlin spoke to the developments and challenges in the latest payments industry shift toward device-based and contextual commerce, the role of operations and technology...
