Mastercard, the payments company, said late last week that it is still committed to operating in China. In a press release, Mastercard said that it is making every effort to secure the license to access the domestic Chinese market and confirmed it is in active...
Mastercard has announced that it is introducing new rules for merchants that offer free trials, requiring them to get cardholder approval when the trial ends before they start billing. “To help cardholders with that decision, merchants will be required to send the cardholder — either by...
In a new global multi-year partnership, Mastercard has teamed up with NYC & Company. The company will also become the organization’s preferred payment technology and will be integrated into the global tourism promotional efforts of the group, according to an announcement. At the same time, Mastercard...
Mastercard’s logo of two intersecting circles will no longer include the name of the company, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The company is going the way of Nike, Apple, Shell and Target by eschewing the use of type in its logo,...
His thinking began to change as eCommerce began to gain ground. David Yates was working at First Data, running its international business, and online retail, as he recalled in a new PYMNTS interview, was “really starting to lift off.” He started to really consider the...
Mastercard is working to simplify the daily commute through its “Tap and Ride” program, available in more than 150 cities. A new global study shows that metro systems around the world are carrying close to 170 million passengers each day, and with that number only...
Mastercard reportedly has lodged a protest with the U.S. government over the use of nationalism by the government in India to promote a domestic payments network there. According to a Reuters exclusive, “Mastercard told the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on June...
Mastercard continued the trend of strong earnings results from payments players, with double-digit gains across several metrics on a global scale. CEO Ajay Banga told analysts that B2B payments and SRC remain front and center as long-term drivers of top-line growth.
The world has a plastic problems — a fact illustrated earlier this week when researchers from the Environment Agency Austria and the Medical University of Vienna jointly presented evidence that there is so much plastic in the environment that we’ve actually begun to inadvertently eat it....