Brazil is tough, China is slowing, consumers are wary elsewhere — and yet, MasterCard beat estimates. Digital efforts and transactions showed strength, and MasterCard laid out how mobile and other initiatives are evolving here and abroad.
Wearable payments functionality is great, but can it be a little more fashionable? MasterCard thinks so; that’s why it has teamed up with the Parsons School of Design on a Fashion and Design Hack. Sherri Haymond, senior vice president of digital payments and labs at...
How can banks get better about authorizing the transactions that consumers initiate with their mobile devices? By relying on smarter fraud solutions, says Ajay Bhalla, president of enterprise security solutions at MasterCard. Prior to taking the stage at Mobile World Congress, Bhalla shared with PYMNTS...
Online fresh food grocer FreshDirect is teaming up with MasterCard to help enhance the online grocery shopping experience of its customers. Through the partnership, FreshDirect customers will now have the ability to utilize MasterCard’s digital payments platform, MasterPass, during the online and in-app payment process. MasterPass...
If offering a superb user experience is what keeps loyal consumers coming back, why do most loyalty programs today fail to deliver that engagement? James Anderson, Group Executive of Platforms, Emerging Payments at MasterCard, sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to share why MasterCard...
Many of the rules surrounding consumer protection against unauthorized transactions are not only inconsistent, but also pretty dated. Nancy O’Malley, Group Executive and Chief Payment System Integrity Officer of MasterCard, briefed MPD CEO Karen Webster on its global initiative to modernize the zero liability promise...
With Black Friday just weeks away, both retailers and consumers alike are gearing up for (or even already in the midst of) the holiday shopping season. Armed with the retail sales data from its SpendingPulse analytics tool, MasterCard revealed the biggest trends for this year’s...
MasterCard Labs’ first innovation event in Kenya has come away with some agricultural ideas. Having launched MasterCard Labs for Financial Inclusion — an initiative that MasterCard stated was designed to impact the lives of more than 100 million people around the world “by developing practical and...
MasterCard is marking a first for the payments ecosystem by integrating tokenization into its MasterPass digital wallet, bringing that security capability into the realms of online and mobile transactions. Vib Prasad, Group Head of MasterPass Global, talks with MPD CEO Karen Webster about the whole...
