Mastercard is leading an effort to make Web3 and cryptocurrency more accessible to women and nonbinary people through The Belle Block, a community focused on educating them on the technologies and their capabilities, according to a company press release Thursday (June 23). The Belle Block...
With travel and travel spending on the rise, Mastercard is expanding its travel and lifestyle platform, the company announced Thursday (June 23). According to a news release, the expansion comes in the form of new services that include a partnership with WhatsApp, COVID-19 alerts, and...
Mastercard is launching its first music album in collaboration with producer Timbaland’s music creator platform Beatclub that features 10 songs by 10 international artists. The album “Priceless” was unveiled on Wednesday (June 22) at the five-day Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France, which running...
If there’s a universal experience in everyday financial life, it lies with bill payments. And yet, although we’ve all gone online, most of us have written checks and measured cash flow versus what’s owed — and the experience is fragmented at best and friction-filled at...
After Mastercard pulled out of Russia in March and was banned from issuing new cards in India last year, the company sees Southeast Asia and Latin America as targets for growth, company Co-President for International Markets Ling Hai told the Reuters Global Markets Forum Thursday...
Close to 4,000 of the most widely-played games worldwide will now enable users to redeem their unspent Mastercard loyalty reward points for gaming dollars. The Mastercard Gamer Xchange (MGX) is a first-of-its-kind, turnkey scalable solution integrated into loyalty platforms using an API integration, according to...
Mastercard is donating up to $5 million, in 1-cent increments, to Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) through a new campaign with grocery stores and restaurants that runs through July 15, according to a company press release Monday (May 2). “Mastercard remains committed to our long-standing...
On Tuesday (April 19), Mastercard announced the expansion of the reforestation work of the Priceless Planet Coalition, the company’s environmental restoration platform, with 15 new projects. These projects, now totaling 18 worldwide, will contribute to the efforts that the Coalition’s companies, communities and consumers in...
Mastercard has opened “One South County,” its European technology hub in Dublin, the company announced Thursday (April 7). The 138,210-square-foot property allows Mastercard to accommodate more than 2,000 workers by 2025, as the payments technology company grows its 975-person workforce, the company said. Mastercard said...
