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MasterCard Gets Ready To Support EMV Debit
July 24, 2014

MasterCard’s latest Card Personalization Validation module in the Collis EMV Personalization Validation Tool qualified by MasterCard, including the U.S. Common Debit AID, according to a UL release. The tool will be used to support EMV card issuers in the U.S., and specifically “checks if MasterCard...

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Why U.S. Consumers Are Itching for EMV Cards
July 23, 2014

Fifty-seven percent of MasterCard cardholders in the U.S. said they want EMV chip cards pretty much right away. The question of “What is EMV?” is being replaced by “When will I get my card?” In a recent podcast interview, MPD CEO Karen Webster asked MasterCard’s...

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MasterCard Partners With SHAZAM To Introduce EMV Debit
July 23, 2014

The SHAZAM Network announced yesterday that has teamed up with MasterCard to offer an EMV debit solution to its participants, according to a SHAZAM release. The Network expects the chip card adoption to decrease fraud and increase transaction security, and the agreement provides all Network...

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MasterCard’s Digital Checkout Service Comes To Apps
July 16, 2014

Jumping into the lucrative world of in-app purchasing – where free games can make as much as $1 million per day – MasterCard will enable in-app payments for its MasterPass digital payment system beginning in early August, the company announced in recent blog post. Retailers will...

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Discover Serves As A DOJ Ally In Amex Trial
July 14, 2014

Times have changed since Discover and American Express both helped the U.S. Justice Department prove its case that Visa and MasterCard exerted too much competitive influence in the card market by preventing banks from issuing cards carrying their brand marks. Now Discover has turned against...

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Guess Who’s Entering The Mobile Authentication Business?
July 10, 2014

Who better than a mobile operator to actually deploy mobile authentication solutions for commerce? Well, that’s at least the opinion of AT&T who soon plans to test a service for international travelers so that they can avoid declined card transactions. How will their solution compete...

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U.K. Businesses Whiff On Mobile Market
July 10, 2014

U.K. citizens want more mobile banking, but British businesses have been slow to adapt to eCommerce, according to MasterCard. “I believe we need to prioritize support for innovative start-ups, businesses in the eCommerce and mobile payments sector for example, which are in a unique position...

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Card Networks Push To Develop A Presence in China
July 09, 2014

Visa and MasterCard are trying to find new ways to work around Chinese regulation that prevent the foreign card companies from processing yuan transactions.  While Chinese consumers can use foreign cards, currently they are allowed to do so for the clearance of foreign currency, as...

Is Prepaid Growing?
July 02, 2014

The Fed says that prepaid card payments are the fastest growing non-cash payment method in the U.S. Ron Hynes, Global Head of Prepaid Solutions for MasterCard tells PYMNTS.com why and, more importantly, what’s next for the future of prepaid.