While the emerging world of mobile payments has allowed us to collectively envision a world where payments goes far outside good old fashioned plastic, it is likely the case that very few people ever imagined that they would literally be able to use their face...
As the famous line from “Cabaret” goes, money makes make the world go round. Though much of the world has changed since Fred Ebb wrote that lyric, that essential truth remains … well, essentially true. But when it comes time to spend that money or find a...
Mastercard announced today (Sept. 19) a new partnership with Stripe to speed up payments for marketplaces. The two payments players are teaming up to help sellers on Stripe marketplaces get paid faster and easier in today’s shareconomy. Mastercard Send’s real-time payments will now use the...
Ecobank Group is partnering with Mastercard to launch Ecobank Masterpass QR, an update to the Masterpass global digital payment service. The global digital payment system will enable micro, small and medium-sized businesses in Nigeria to accept fast and secure digital payments for the first time...
Going into investor day, Mastercard is ready to talk about its brand’s evolution from card network to digital payments acceptance network, buttressed by the continued growth and acceptance of Masterpass among issuers, acquirers and merchants worldwide. The highlights of the great digital migration presentation will focus...
With an only moderately powerful time machine, one could easily return to the time period when the digital wallet was the “it” payments technology of the moment. It was only two or three years ago that anyone who was anyone in financial services or tech...
Will the corporate world contribute to global development and financial aid? More to the point, where is the incentive for corporations to do so when the ROI is not realizable in the short term? Karen Webster caught up with Carlos Cornejo, SVP of new consumers...
In its seventh year collaborating with Stand Up To Cancer, Mastercard announced that its cardholders helped to raise $4 million during the annual Dine Out campaign. Cardholders were invited to donate to the cause and give back by dining out and sharing their reason for...
The mystery of the Mastercard/Green Dot mayhem that glitched Walmart prepaid cards in May 2016 has been explained by the three companies involved. Back in May, some customers were unable to access the amounts loaded onto prepaid cards for several days, and some could not...