Mastercard

2111 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 06 Nov 2025

MasterCard appoints Khan to lead Islamic payments business in South East Asia

MasterCard today announced that it has appointed Safdar Khan to lead its growing Islamic payments business in Southeast Asia with immediate effect.

MasterCard offers free WiFi to cardholders visiting the UK

MasterCard has partnered with BSkyB-owned The Cloud to offer cardholders visiting Britain free access to more than 22,000 WiFi hotspots.

What are consumers spending on?

Sarah Quinlan, senior vice president, market insights, MasterCard Advisors, talks about trends in the spending pulse review and what has surprised her in the report.

Identifying opportunities in digital evolution

Ted Iacobuzio, vice president - global insights, MasterCard, explains the digital evolution index, how it helps to segment markets, identify opportunities and the metrics it uses.

The opportunity in mobile payments

Jason Lane, group executive, European market development, MasterCard, speaks about key developments in payments technology, opportunity of the internet and what's next for the payments industry.

Half of US POS terminals to accept chip cards by end of 2015

Nearly half of US merchant terminals will accept EMV chip card payments by the end of next year, according to a trade body set up to push the migration from magstripe plastic.

MasterCard looks to bust contactless transaction limits with fingerprint cards

MasterCard has partnered with Norwegian firm Zwipe to launch a contactless payment card with built-in fingerprint sensor.

An assessment of the retail sector

Catharina Eklof, senior vice president, global merchant & acceptance development and Ling Hai, president, enterprise development at MasterCard provide their assessment of the retail industry and how its relationships with merchants are changing.

The importance of m-commerce for MasterCard

Chris Kangas, head of contactless & mobile payments, Europe, MasterCard, provides a definition of mobile commerce, the impact of Apple Pay and MasterCard's plans for mobile payments.

Making the most of customer spending data

Guy Cheston, media sales director, Harrods, talks about using MasterCard's spending data within the business and gives advice for other retailers.

Visa and MasterCard face scrutiny by new UK watchdog

The UK government is planning to put supervision of MasterCard and Visa alongside the country's main interbank payment systems into the hands of a new Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), whose chief remit is to inject more competition into the country's payments industry.

Verification in the retail sector

Ajay Bhalla, president, enterprise security solutions, MasterCard, discusses threats and opportunities for the retail sector and potential ways of replacing the password system for authentication and verification.