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MasterCard Keeps Its Promise To Developers
July 23, 2015

MasterCard put its heart on its sleeve (or online) last week when it made a formal declaration expressing its commitment to developers. Why now, and what have the results been? Sebastien Taveau, Chief Developer Evangelist, Open API Initiative at MasterCard, shares all with MPD CEO...

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MasterCard’s Report On Consumers And Data Security
July 09, 2015

  What worries consumers more – having their house robbed or having their financial information compromised? The answer to that, along with fresh new insights about how consumers feel about money and the security of their payments and financial assets was the topic of conversation...

Tokenization Goes Private
July 06, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]MasterCard’s news earlier this month that it will be the first network to add tokenization support for private label (store-branded) credit cards was nothing if not big. Among the first retailers to participate will be BJ’s Wholesale Club,...

MasterCard’s Masters Of Code Hackathon Momentum
June 10, 2015

What do St. Louis and Mexico City have in common? They are two cities with emerging – and vibrant – FinTech ecosystems. And the two newest cities to be added to MasterCard’s Masters Of Code Hackathon Series, a global program designed to match developers with great...

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MasterCard Launches (Almost) Real Time Payments
May 19, 2015

MasterCard has entered the realm of real-time payments.The payments technology company today launched MasterCard Send, a personal payments service that enables funds to be sent quickly and securely to customers domestically and internationally.

MasterCard Launches Business Network 2.0 For US Business Owners
May 04, 2015

MasterCard announced that it has launched the latest version of its professional site, Business Network 2.0. According to a company release, the new site is built on feedback from hundreds of small- and mid-sized businesses looking to minimize costs, get more out of a day’s...

MasterCard On The New Face Of POS
May 01, 2015

The migration to EMV in the US, as MPD CEO Karen Webster discussed earlier this week in a live digital discussion, is putting a new face on point-of-sale. New capabilities including talking POS systems, large interactive tablet screens, and wearable devices are transforming the purchase...

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How MasterCard Plans To Push eCommerce Growth In Brazil
April 22, 2015

Nearly two years ago, mobile transactions made up about 4 percent of Brazilian eCommerce. But by January of this year, they were approaching 10 percent, says Daniel Cohen, SVP of Emerging Payments for MasterCard Latin American and Caribbean, a compounded growth he called “impressive.” MPD...

MasterCard Cooks Up M-Payments Restaurant App
April 17, 2015

MasterCard announced that it has partnered with restaurateur and chef Marcus Samuelsson to bring its Qkr! app to Samuelsson’s new “casual kitchenette” restaurant, Streetbird Rotisserie, the first restaurant location in the U.S. to enable the app.