05 Dec 24 @ 13:42
Mastercard has reached an agreement in principle to settle a £200 million legal claim brought on behalf of 46 million UK consumers over allegations of unfairly high card transaction interchange... read more
15 Nov 24 @ 10:17
Mastercard has outlined its vision for the future of online shopping, aiming to revolutionise the payment experience by eliminating physical card numbers and outdated security measures. By combining tokenization with... read more
01 Nov 24 @ 13:51
Visa and Mastercard have both reported strong earnings for their recent quarters, showcasing the resilience of digital payment platforms amid a rising demand for cashless transactions. Visa’s fiscal Q4 earnings... read more
11 Oct 24 @ 16:34
Citi and Mastercard have announced a partnership to offer faster, more efficient cross-border payments using Mastercard debit cards across 14 global markets, with plans for expansion. Through Citi’s WorldLink Payment... read more
13 Sep 24 @ 09:50
Mastercard has expanded its cybersecurity services with an agreement to acquire global threat intelligence company Recorded Future from Insight Partners for $2.65 billion. Recorded Future is the world’s largest threat... read more
04 Sep 24 @ 09:56
Mastercard and Visa are facing collective lawsuits in the UK, over historical overcharging claims on multilateral interchange fees, with claims surpassing £4 billion. The Competition Appeal Tribunal has approved the... read more
30 Aug 24 @ 09:03
Mastercard has chosen India for the global debut of its Payment Passkey Service, a ground-breaking solution aimed at securing online shopping by enhancing both security and convenience. Unveiled at the... read more
18 Jun 24 @ 08:38
Mastercard and Thought Machine, a cloud-native banking technology company, are advancing their partnership to deliver payments and core banking (critical back-end technology for product and account management and the customer... read more
11 Jun 24 @ 17:05
Mastercard says it has a vision for 100% e-commerce tokenization in Europe by the end of the decade. This supports a global commitment to phase out manual card entry and... read more
03 Jun 24 @ 18:04
For the first time, crypto exchange users will be able to send and receive crypto using their Mastercard Crypto Credential aliases, instead of the typically long and complex blockchain addresses.... read more
31 May 24 @ 12:45
Visa and Mastercard have agreed to pay $197.5 million in a preliminary settlement with ATM clients who accused the card processors of fixing the price of fees at ATM. The settlement,... read more
23 May 24 @ 16:21
As fraudsters seek new ways to exploit technology, Mastercard is using Gen AI to double the speed at which it can detect potentially compromised cards, further protecting cardholders and securing... read more
11 Apr 24 @ 15:55
Just weeks after reaching a landmark $30 billion settlement on interchange fees designed to provide relief to retail businesses, Mastercard appears to be planning to increase certain credit card fees... read more
26 Mar 24 @ 15:51
Visa and Mastercard have agreed to cut their US interchange fees in what the two companies hope will be a landmark settlement that merchants say will save them $30 billion... read more
25 Mar 24 @ 16:53
Mastercard has continued to expand its cross-border remittance reach with a new connection to Alipay, China’s leading digital wallet, making it one of the fastest-growing cross-border payment offering. The move... read more
29 Feb 24 @ 17:17
Mastercard and MTN Group Fintech have signed a multi-market agreement that will connect millions of people and small businesses across Africa with digital tools to transact through secure Mobile Money... read more
02 Feb 24 @ 17:33
Mastercard has introduced a new AI tool to combat fraud. Decision Intelligence Pro is “an advanced iteration of its renowned Decision Intelligence (DI) real-time decisioning solution” a Gen AI consumer... read more
26 Jan 24 @ 17:33
There is, I think, one thing that almost everyone can agree on — passwords in their current format and usage are a major issue for all concerned. While passwords are... read more
07 Dec 23 @ 11:16
In a bid to close the gap on its rivals after what has frankly been a far from stellar rollout of Samsung Pay, Samsung have announced their partnership on the... read more
21 Nov 23 @ 14:40
China’s central bank and the National Administration of Financial Regulation has finally issued a bank card clearing license to Mastercard. The People’s Bank of China’s (PBC) approval of the application... read more
16 Jun 26 @ 18:17
Financial fraud losses in the UK climbed to their highest level in four years during 2025, highlighting the growing sophistication of criminal networks and rais... more
11 Jun 26 @ 16:00
A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more
23 Jun 26 @ 18:52
The European Payments Initiative (EPI) has secured a significant boost to its ambitions of creating a pan-European payments network, with Austria’s largest ba... more