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How MasterCard Will Make Wearables Fashionable
March 03, 2016

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...

MasterCard Raises The IQ Of Fraud Prevention
February 22, 2016

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...

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MasterPass Moves Into Online Grocery
December 15, 2015

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...

Man In The Middleware
November 17, 2015

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...

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MasterCard Goes All-In On Zero Liability
November 11, 2015

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...

MasterCard Forecasts Strong Holiday Sales
November 10, 2015

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 Helps Kenyan Farmers Access Capital
November 05, 2015

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...

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MasterPass Brings Tokenization Online
October 26, 2015

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...

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Taking Corporate Travel Payments Mobile
October 21, 2015

Striking a balance between instituting corporate controls and providing a frictionless user experience is an ongoing challenge in the travel and expense management market. Richard Crum, Group Head, Global T&E Products & Solutions at MasterCard, sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to explain how...