Mastercard - News, Articles & Research

Visa and Mastercard blame increased risk of fraud for post-Brexit fee hikes

Visa and Mastercard have cited fraud and increased competition to justify post-brexit fee increases on cross-border payments from the UK.

25 August 2022

News/crypto

Binance and Mastercard launch crypto-to-fiat payment card

Binance is to launch a cryptocurrency payment card that enables users to convert their holdings into fiat for transactions at Mastercard terminals worldwide.

25 August 2022

Company announcement/payments

Enfuce to expand Card-as-a-Service with Mastercard

Enfuce is excited to announce an extended partnership with Mastercard to expand the company’s Card as a Service platform in the Nordics. Through the partnership, Mastercard powers Card as a Service with tokenised multi-currency BINs in the Nordics, enabling Enfuce’s customers to launch and issue their own physical and virtual Mastercard payment cards in just weeks rather than months.

18 August 2022

News/payments

Mastercard and Visa stop processing payments for Pornhub advertising arm

Visa and Mastercard will stop processing payments for the advertising arm of Pornhub's parent company after developments in a lawsuit relating to child pornography.

05 August 2022

Company announcement/retail

FinTech Automation joins Mastercard Engage partner network

FinTech Automation (“FTA”) announces it has been selected as one of the technology partners for open banking within Mastercard’s Engage partner network.

03 August 2022

Company announcement/payments

Mastercard Installments gains traction

Mastercard has welcomed a raft of new global partners to its innovative Mastercard Installments program and is expanding it further to support small businesses in the U.S.

28 July 2022

News/people

Mastercard names Ellen Jackowski chief sustainability officer

Mastercard has appointed HP's Ellen Jackowski chief sustainability officer, spearheading the payment giant's ESG strategy.

25 July 2022

News/inclusion

Morgan Stanley and Mastercard back credit-building startup TomoCredit

TomoCredit, the US startup behind a credit card designed to help first-time borrowers build credit history, has raised $22 million in a Series B funding round joined by Morgan Stanley's Next Level Fund and Mastercard.

22 July 2022

Company announcement/people

Mastercard names Vivian Zhou corporate treasurer

Mastercard today named Vivian Zhou as Corporate Treasurer, effective August 15, 2022. She succeeds Alfred Kibe, who will assume the role of CFO of Mastercard's North America region.

21 July 2022

Finextra TV/payments

EBAday 2022: The journey to Payments Modernisation

Wenche Fagereng, Head of Payment Services Infrastructure, Norway, Mastercard, speaks at EBAday 2022 about what Payments Modernisation entails, the different approaches across Europe, and the successful criteria needed to enable more financial inclusion.

21 July 2022

News/payments

Mastercard forms alliance with quantum computing player D-Wave

Mastercard has formed a multi-year strategic alliance with quantum computing specialist D-Wave Systems, focusing on areas such as loyalty and rewards, cross-border settlement and fraud management.

19 July 2022

Company announcement/payments

Mastercard adds open banking to Engage partner programme

Mastercard today 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.

15 July 2022