Tagged: mastercard

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

June 11, 2022 @ 1:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cashplus Bank, the Fintech bank for UK-based small businesses, recently revealed that it has become the first UK bank to introduce a Mastercard-powered Digital Health Check tool for SMEs. The Digital Health Check, which will reportedly be available to the public for free, offers a… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 11:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On the margins of the Ninth Summit of the Americas, DFC and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced the first joint program in response to the Call to Action for Northern Central America the Vice President launched in May 2021. The Call to Action is designed “to… Read More

June 9, 2022 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Apple Pay Later, Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) entry into the buy now – pay later sector (BNPL), will be managed directly by an Apple subsidiary according to multiple reports. The news of the BNPL product was revealed during the WWDC keynote address earlier this week representing a… Read More

June 8, 2022 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Edge says it is launching a completely private, no KYC debit Mastercard in the US. The new card may be directly funded with Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, Litecoin , and Dash. The announcement of the card was made at Consensus. The “confidential Mastercard” touts its… Read More

June 1, 2022 @ 7:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

  HyperPay, a payments provider located in Saudi Arabia but providing services across the MENA region, has raised $40 million (SAR 138M) in a funding round led by Mastercard (NYSE: MA) with the participation of Amwal Capital Partners and AB Ventures. Along with the investment… Read More

May 30, 2022 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Data from Mastercard’s (NYSE: MA) 2022 Borderless Payments Report has revealed “two in five (44%) global small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) fear they will never achieve the same revenue levels as before the pandemic, although online business and international sales offer a real lifeline.”… Read More

May 27, 2022 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA), a tech leader in the international payments sector, has announced a strategic partnership Saudi Arabia-based HyperPay, which claims to be the fastest growing e-commerce payments services provider in the MENA region, in order to drive the adoption of digital payment solutions across… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 2:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With cybercrime expected to cost $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, innovating cybersecurity remains critical across industries “facing rapid digitization.” Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has announced the launch of new attack simulation and assessment platform Cyber Front, “enabled by a strategic minority investment in Picus Security.” The… Read More