Biometrics more or less “went mainstream” when the iPhone 5s, launched in September 2013, incorporated a fingerprint reader into the iPhone. Presented to consumers as a way to use a fingerprint, instead of a password, to access their phone, TouchID got consumers used to the...
The U.K. gift market is worth over £5 billion a year and shows no signs of slowing down, with 20,000 gift cards purchased every hour. But if a business goes into administration, those cards can become worthless to the receiver. Now a new company —...
There are only a few things that most people can agree on these days, notes Mastercard. One of them is that too many people in the world are denied access to banking and financial services of any kind. The second? That this lack of financial...
Masterpass QR is getting more global, according to the latest release from Mastercard out of Mobile World Congress. Masterpass QR is live in seven markets in the Middle East and Africa including Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Rawanda, Pakistan Tanzania and Ghana. The push for the digital...
Mastercard and Boingo Wireless are teaming up to deliver unlimited access to more than one million premium Boingo Wi-Fi hotspots around the world for select HSBC Mastercard cardholders in Argentina, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and the U.K. “We know that consumers...
Mastercard is celebrating a High Court ruling in its favor in a lawsuit brought on by some of the U.K.’s top retailers regarding interchange fees. According to a Financial Times report, the company is currently dealing with at least 10 separate lawsuits from U.K. retailers...
Regular readers know that payments — and unlocking the power of them — are capable of doing a whole host of amazing things. It’s no real surprise that at a publication called PYMNTS, we are big fans of, well, payments used in that way. But...
The global card network announced on Tuesday (Jan. 24) that it will launch a host of exclusive dining privileges for Platinum, World and World Elite Mastercard consumer credit cardholders in Asia-Pacific. The new dining benefits, which a part of a larger refresh of Mastercard’s Affluent...
Oftentimes, there’s so much fascination with new technologies and advancements in consumer-facing payments that the other side of payments doesn’t quite get it’s due. But there’s a great deal of innovation happening across the commercial payment landscape, and Sachin Mehra, group executive of global commercial...
