Mastercard

1955 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 28 Jan 2025

/identity

Mastercard to buy digital ID firm Ekata for $850m

Mastercard has agreed an $850 million deal to buy AI-powered digital identity verification company Ekata.

/payments

HSBC UAE taps Mastercard Track for B2B payments

Technology leader Mastercard continues to deliver on its promise to modernize business payments worldwide and across the Middle East and Africa region, announcing a new partnership with HSBC that will provide the bank’s commercial customers in the UAE with an enhanced business-to-business payment experience via the Mastercard Track™ Business Payment Service.

/payments

Hi55 Ventures to launch salary access card

Hi55 Ventures, a disruptive new fintech company in pay, has partnered with Mastercard to launch, a market-first salary access card, enabling people to access their pay as soon as they’ve earned it.

/inclusion

Mastercard to work with Central Bank of Iraq to modernise the country's payment ecosystem

Mastercard signed a partnership agreement with the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) to digitize the country’s payment ecosystem in a bid to boost financial inclusion, encourage socio-economic development, mitigate the risks of a shadow economy and accelerate the advancement toward a cashless society.

/payments

Zemen Bank and Mastercard introduce Ethiopia’s first contactless prepaid travel card

Zemen Bank has announced a partnership with Mastercard that will see the introduction of the first ever Mastercard branded prepaid contactless travel card in Ethiopia.

/crypto

FS giants join $65m ConsenSys funding round

JP Morgan, Mastercard and UBS have joined a $65 million funding round for blockchain software engineering firm ConsenSys.

/sustainable

Mastercard unveils carbon calculator for banks

Mastercard has teamed up with Swedish fintech Doconomy to develop a carbon calculator that banks can integrate into their apps to give customers a snapshot of the emissions generated by their purchases across spending categories.

/payments

EBAday 2021: Finding European synergy in the transition from Open Banking to Open Finance

Pioneering a defined strategy in 2020, the European Commission outlined its intention to adopt a legislative proposal for a new Open Finance Framework by mid-2022.

/payments

Mastercard releases end-user application for UK Request to Pay framework

Mastercard has rolled out an end-user application for the UK's Requst to Pay framework using standards developed by Pay.UK

/payments

E-commerce provides a lifeline to retailers with additional $900 billion spent online globally

As Covid-19 kept consumers around the world at home, nearly everything from groceries to gardening supplies was purchased online.

/payments

Airtel Africa clinches $100 million investment from Mastercard

Mastercard is to invest $100 million into Airtel Africa's mobile money business.

/regulation

WhatsApp payment service gets go-ahead for Brazil relaunch

Brazil's central bank has given Facebook-owned WhatsApp the greenlight to relaunch P2P payments in the country - nine months after suspending the service.