19 Mar 26 @ 15:00

Mastercard unveils new AI model to push artificial intelligence beyond the chatbot boom and into the operational core of global payments. Its latest move is the development of a new... read more

17 Mar 26 @ 15:04

Mastercard has agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure specialist BVNK in a deal worth up to $1.8 billion, marking one of the clearest signals yet that major card networks are positioning... read more

12 Mar 26 @ 18:18

Mastercard has moved to defend its position in Europe as the political and regulatory debate over payments sovereignty gathers pace. For more than a year, European policymakers, central bankers and... read more

09 Mar 26 @ 14:46

Mastercard has unveiled a new open standard designed to address one of the most pressing challenges in the rise of AI-driven commerce: how to verify that a transaction initiated by... read more

03 Mar 26 @ 16:11

Banco Santander and Mastercard have completed what they describe as Europe’s first live end-to-end payment initiated and executed by an artificial intelligence agent within a regulated banking framework — a... read more

18 Feb 26 @ 13:35

The race to define the next phase of digital commerce via agentic payments has moved decisively into the banking mainstream. Visa and Mastercard have enlisted leading Asia-Pacific institutions to trial... read more

10 Feb 26 @ 16:59

As Agentic AI moves from experimentation to execution, Mastercard is arguing that technology alone will not determine winners. Instead, organisational readiness — spanning skills, data, governance and security — is... read more

02 Feb 26 @ 20:03

Visa has delivered a solid set of first-quarter results, comfortably exceeding market expectations as consumer spending remained resilient across its global network. Yet the numbers were not enough to placate... read more

08 Dec 25 @ 16:07

The proposed Mastercard–Visa settlement, two decades in the making, could reverberate through the foundations of the US card market. While the legal process may yet stretch into 2027, the framework... read more

04 Dec 25 @ 16:49

Mastercard is making an assertive move into the Open Finance future of underwriting with the launch of Mastercard Credit Intelligence, a suite of data-rich tools designed to accelerate and refine... read more

10 Nov 25 @ 17:23

Visa and Mastercard have reached a revised settlement with US merchants that could reshape the long-running debate over interchange fees. The agreement follows nearly two decades of litigation and comes... read more

31 Oct 25 @ 11:40

Mastercard is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire US-based blockchain infrastructure firm Zero Hash in a deal that could reach $2 billion. The move, if confirmed, would mark one of... read more

28 Oct 25 @ 10:19

Mastercard and PayPal have announced a collaboration that could define how consumers and businesses transact in the emerging world of agentic commerce. At the heart of the initiative is the... read more

17 Oct 25 @ 12:32

Mastercard is stepping up its efforts to simplify business payments with the launch of two major innovations — the Commercial Connect API and Clearing Controls — designed to make corporate... read more

14 Oct 25 @ 15:41

Mastercard has launched a new data-driven service designed to tackle one of the most persistent pain points in digital commerce: low payment approval rates. The Payment Optimisation Platform (POP) uses... read more

10 Oct 25 @ 13:17

A high-stakes bidding war appears to be brewing between crypto exchange Coinbase and payments giant Mastercard over the acquisition of BVNK, the London-based fintech firm building enterprise-grade stablecoin payment infrastructure.... read more

11 Sep 25 @ 09:52

Mastercard has set out its most ambitious vision yet for the integration of agentic AI into payments, unveiling a suite of tools and partnerships intended to make so-called agentic commerce... read more

21 Jul 25 @ 10:13

As stablecoins edge closer to mainstream adoption, global card giants Mastercard and Visa are striking a careful balance – acknowledging the potential of digital currencies while casting doubt on their... read more

11 Jul 25 @ 10:49

Apple, Visa, and Mastercard have secured a legal victory after a US judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the three companies colluded to suppress competition within the payments network market,... read more

01 Jul 25 @ 09:11

In a decisive legal blow to the global card giants, the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has ruled that Visa and Mastercard’s default multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) breach European competition... read more