Mastercard

1959 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 28 Jan 2025

Americans trust Visa over Apple for m-payments

Technology firms looking to take a slice of the mobile payments pie, such as Apple and Google, still have a long way to go before Americans trust them as much as more traditional players like Visa, according to a survey from Ogilvy & Mather.

MasterCard taps Facebook Places for Yankees campaign

MasterCard is using QR codes and Facebook Places for its 'Check into the Ballgame' marketing campaign, offering customers the chance to win tickets to New York Yankee games.

Hungarian mobile wallet association established

A group of telcos have joined forces with MasterCard and OTP Bank to develop mobile contactless payments services in Hungary.

Isis sign card networks to NFC m-payments service

Isis, the contactless mobile payments venture set up by major US network operators has brought on board Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

US Bank unveils contactless payment and medi-care wristband

US Bank is launching a wristband that lets users make contactless payments and store emergency contact and medical information.

EC sets out terrorist financing tracking plan

The European Commission has set out proposals for tracking terrorist financing, providing a counterweight to the controversial system run by the US.

WikiLeaks files anti-trust complaint against Visa and MasterCard

WikiLeaks has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission, claiming that Visa and MasterCard are in breach of EU anti-trust laws by blocking donations to the whistle-blowing outfit.

EU courts open hearing into MasterCard fees

MasterCard's long-running legal challenge against the European Commission's 2007 decision on the company's cross-border consumer interchange fees has been aired at the EU General Law Cout in Luxembourg, with the card scheme declaring that "the future direction of European payments is stake".

Visa shuts down WikiLeaks payments workaround

Visa has succeeded in shutting down a workaround that briefly enabled the re-instatement of credit card payments to whistle-blowing Website WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks to sue Visa and MasterCard

WikiLeaks has announced plans to sue Visa and MasterCard over their refusal to process donations to the whistle-blowing service.

DnB Nor and Telenor team on Oslo contactless m-payments pilot

DnB Nor, Telenor and MasterCard are teaming up to trial contactless mobile payments in Norway's capital Oslo.

Fed surprises markets with watered-down interchange caps

Shares in major US issuing banks and card schemes moved up late Tuesday as the Federal Reserve issued a watered-down take on the Durbin Amendment on interchange fees, setting the cap at 21 cents per transaction, rather than the 12 cent ceiling proposed in earlier consultations.