May 29, 2024
Mastercard Unveils P2P Pilot for Crypto Credential Tool
Mastercard has introduced what it calls a “milestone” update to its Crypto Credential tool. For the first time, the company announced Wednesday (May 29) crypto exchange users can send and...
May 29, 2024
CBDC Scrutiny Underscores Role of Compliance in Scaling Digital Innovations
The technology for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) already exists. And as dozens of countries around the world have proven, in less time than it took to read this sentence,...
May 29, 2024
Thredd’s McCarthy Gets Down to the Business of FinTech
Defining “payments modernization” is no easy task. If you asked 10 different payments executives to define it, you might get 10 different answers. But for payment processor Thredd CEO Jim...
May 28, 2024
MoonPay Debuts Tools For Web3 Digital Commerce
Web3 infrastructure firm MoonPay has launched Web3 Tools, a platform for “building mainstream-ready digital experiences.” The platform, announced Tuesday (May 28), expands on MoonPay’s payments and minting infrastructure to offer...
May 28, 2024
Spreedly President: Companies Need to Pivot to Match Consumer Spending...
With economic headwinds picking up, consumer spending behavior is poised to shift as households tighten their belts in some categories and economists try to make sense of the short-term and...
May 27, 2024
The Passkeys Primer: Making Sense of the New Security Paradigm
Consumers hate passwords. Fraudsters love them. There might be no better business case for passkeys, which are a biometric, digital alternative to manually selected and stored passwords. Passkeys have also...
May 24, 2024
AI in Commerce: 5 Essential Use Cases for B2B Operations
It’s getting harder and harder to spell innovation without AI (artificial intelligence). And with the news Wednesday (May 22) that Zilliant is integrating generative AI across its pricing lifecycle management solutions,...
May 24, 2024
Capital One and Walmart End Exclusive Credit Card Agreement
Capital One will no longer be the exclusive issuer of Walmart Consumer Credit Cards. The two companies announced Friday (May 24) in a joint press release that they ended their agreement. They introduced the Capital One...
May 24, 2024
Mastercard and African Development Bank Group to Provide Digital Identities
Mastercard and the African Development Bank Group formed an alliance to provide digital access to critical services to 100 million people and businesses in Africa over the next 10 years. The first efforts of the...
Embedded finance can help nonfinancial brands reach their full potential by allowing customers to transact seamlessly wherever they are, reducing the risk of cart abandonment online, says Mastercard’s Sherri Haymond. Read more in the “Embedded Finance Tracker®,” a collaboration with Galileo,