Tagged: mastercard

September 4, 2022 @ 10:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Ajman Bank have strengthened their commitment to inclusion through a new initiative “designed to expand access to the digital economy.” The Touch Card is “an accessible payment card that will allow blind and partially sighted people to easily facilitate payments and… Read More

August 30, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Users of the NFT marketplace, iNFTSpace, can now enjoy more direct purchases of digital artworks via Alchemy Pay’s fiat-to-crypto gateway plugin. This on/off ramp is now being “integrated across all areas of blockchain.” For up and coming projects, such as iNFTspace, this is “the first… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 8:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Karachi-headquartered Fintech firm Safepay HQ is reportedly going live with Cybersource (a product of payments service provider Visa) in order to bring Pakistani merchants new ways to allow their clients to pay them online. Safepay is a payment service provider that has reportedly received pilot… Read More

August 21, 2022 @ 5:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enfuce is pleased to confirm an extended partnership with Mastercard (NYSE: MA) in order to expand the company’s Card as a Service platform in the Nordics. Through the partnership, Mastercard powers Card as a Service “with tokenized multi-currency BINs in the Nordics, enabling Enfuce’s customers… Read More

August 4, 2022 @ 10:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Automation (FTA) announces it has been “selected as one of the technology partners for open banking within Mastercard’s Engage partner network.” The Engage program has “developed a network to provide businesses easy access to technology partners that can quickly build and deploy open banking… Read More

July 26, 2022 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard  (NYSE: MA) announced that Ellen Jackowski will join the company as Chief Sustainability Officer “starting July 25, 2022.” In this role, she will be “instrumental in further integrating Mastercard’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy into the organization.” Mike Froman, vice chairman and president… Read More

July 25, 2022 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Instacart, which claims to be the leading grocery technology company in North America, and Chase, one of the largest co-brand card issuers in the U.S., recently launched the new Instacart Mastercard credit card, with Mastercard as the “exclusive” payments network. With this “first-ever” credit card… Read More

July 19, 2022 @ 4:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

D-Wave Systems Inc., which claims to be a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and the “only” company building both quantum annealing and gate-based quantum computers, and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced a multi-year strategic alliance “to champion the acceleration and adoption of quantum… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) recently announced an expansion of its Engage partner network to include its open banking services, “offering customers easy access to several technology partners that can quickly build and deploy open banking solutions for payments and lending decisioning at scale.” According to Mastercard’s… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 4:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) is expanding its Start Path startup engagement program to include seven early and late-stage startups “hailing from the United States, Canada and Latin America.” Carbon Neutral Club, Guava, oneKIN, Palla, SUMA Wealth, Truora and Yunit are the newest Start Path companies that… Read More

July 14, 2022 @ 10:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fasset Technologies Limited has partnered with Mastercard to expand financial services in Indonesia and create opportunities for underserved consumers The announcement follows Fasset’s $22 million Series A from this past April. According to a statement from Fasset, the companies will join in digitizing banking services… Read More

July 14, 2022 @ 3:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has launched Changeworks™, a social-impact program that “helps Canada’s not-for-profits harness the power of technology and data to create positive change.” To put this commitment into action, Mastercard has “made its first anchor grant to national not-for-profit, CanadaHelps, to launch a digital… Read More

July 11, 2022 @ 11:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has introduced WhereToStay.com – an online platform which, basing on data on average housing costs and average wages from Central Statistical Office (Główny Urząd Statystyczny), aggregated with spending trends of everyday purchases, from Mastercard, “determine the approximate cost of living in various… Read More

July 9, 2022 @ 3:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

i2c Inc., a provider of digital payment and banking tech, announced its partnership with Colorado-based financial tech firm Marygold & Co., in order to power the platform’s Tap to Pay Debit Mastercard and new “customer-centric” savings program. Leveraging i2c’s “plug-and-play” payment APIs, Marygold & Co…. Read More

July 6, 2022 @ 4:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paytrail and Mastercard’s (NYSE: MA) partnership via Aiia, an Open Banking platform, is now supporting over 1 million open banking payments every month. Paytrail and Aiia have reportedly been working together since 2019, as they focus on supporting Open Banking enabled payments via digital commerce… Read More

June 27, 2022 @ 11:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MEXC Global, which claims to be a leading digital asset and cryptocurrency trading platform, reveals that it has taken steps towards improving the process of crypto purchases by offering investors in 180 countries the option of buying cryptocurrencies using Visa or Mastercard. Visa and Mastercard… Read More

June 27, 2022 @ 9:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spire, a GCC Open Banking services provider, has announced a partnership with Mastercard (NYSE: MA),  a technology leader in the global payments sector. The collaboration will “help banks revolutionize consumer engagement and enhance user experiences in the region by integrating Spire ‘Ingage’ and Mastercard’s Merchant… Read More

June 24, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) in the UK has set out its plans showing how it proposes “to carry out two market reviews focusing on card fees.” As noted in the update from PSR, one “looks at scheme and processing fees, and the other at… Read More

June 14, 2022 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced a new Start Path initiative that has been designed for Ukrainian Fintech firms and entrepreneurs “to enable Ukrainian startups to accelerate growth and contribute to the rebuilding of the country’s economy.” The initiative – announced at Money 20/20 Europe in Amsterdam… Read More

June 12, 2022 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) recently noted that they believe the process of purchasing an NFT needs to be made a lot easier and safer. When that happens, customers get the things they want “with less stress and uncertainty,” according to Mastercard. For NFT creators, these changes… Read More