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Company announcement/payments

Digital Jersey signs innovation deal with Mastercard

Digital Jersey has signed a new agreement with Mastercard as part of the island’s focus on innovation and digital transformation.

19 April 2023

News/payments

Mastercard unveils international payments tool

Mastercard has launched a tool that helps financial institutions set up international payments for their customers - including consumers and SMEs - in more than 60 currencies to over 100 markets.

12 April 2023

News/sustainable

Mastercard makes sustainable cards pledge

Mastercard is stepping up its sustainability efforts, vowing to ditch all first-use PVC plastics from its newly produced cards by the beginning of 2028.

05 April 2023

Company announcement/payments

Transcard integrates with Mastercard Track Business Payment Service

Transcard, a global leader in payment and data technology, today announced that it has successfully integrated its family of embedded payment solutions, called SMART Suite, with one of Mastercard’s innovative commercial offerings, Track Business Payment Service.

05 April 2023

Company announcement/payments

CardX adopts Mastercard Click to Pay

CardX, a Stax company and the leading surcharging compliance platform, has launched Mastercard Click to Pay on Lightbox, CardX’s online payment form, to expand the product’s reach.

05 April 2023

Finextra TV/retail

The impact of Open Banking and Embedded Finance on customer experience

Speaking at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2023, Octavian Puzderca, Senior Principal, Advisors Client Services, Mastercard, and Katharina Luschnik, Vice President, Product Sales, Aiia, a Mastercard company, discuss the impact of Open Banking payments and Embedded Finance on the digital customer experience.

03 April 2023

News/cloud

Mastercard and Visa eye $1bn deal for Brazil's Pismo - Bloomberg

Mastercard and Visa are among the suitors in talks to buy Brazilian cloud-native core banking and payments platform Pismo for around $1 billion, according to Bloomberg.

30 March 2023

Company announcement/cloud

Finaro, Mastercard, Northmill, and NMI to bring Cloud Commerce to Nordic merchants

Finaro, the global cross-border payment provider and fully licensed bank, has today announced its European Cloud Commerce deployment with payments technology company Mastercard, Nordic neobank and POS provider, Northmill, and leading full commerce enablement technology company, NMI.

23 March 2023

Company announcement/payments

Mastercard expands Engage partner network

The Mastercard Engage partner network helps connect customers with technology partners to build innovative guest checkout and point-of-sale solutions that deliver consumer choice

21 March 2023

News/crypto

Australian startup Stables to issue USDC to fiat Mastercard

Australian stablecoin startup Stables is to issue a Marqeta-powered Mastercard for USDC to fiat currency conversion at merchant checkouts, both instore and online.

21 March 2023

News/security

Mastercard acquires Swedish cyber-security firm Baffin Bay

Mastercard has acquired Swedish cybersecurity firm Baffin Bay as part of plans to build a multi-layered protective shield for customers across the world

20 March 2023

News/payments

Judge upholds $5.6bn interchange settlement

A US federal appeals court has upheld a $5.6 billion antitrust class-action settlement between 12 million retailers and Visa and Mastercard over interchange fees.

17 March 2023