To deliver routing, pricing and payment automation for freight forwarders, Mastercard is partnering with Stargo. With Mastercard’s commercial payment solutions and Stargo’s price optimization engine, freight companies can benefit from a more efficient procure-to-pay process, Mastercard announced at Money20/20 Europe. “Mastercard is committed to helping businesses pay and...
To help companies that want to jump into the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution — but are perhaps unsure where to actually start — the team at Mastercard is hoping to offer up a solution in the form of AI Express. The offering, launched today, is...
When Mastercard Send debuted three years ago, the company wasn’t thinking about B2B -- it was focused on peer-to-peer push payments and individual insurance payouts. Yet market demand soon pushed Send beyond its initial vision. Shari Krikorian, senior vice president at Mastercard Worldwide, tells PYMNTS...
When most payments people are talking or thinking about the intersection of things and payments, Mastercard‘s VP of commerce for every device, Matt Miller, noted that their mindset is typically about turning devices that consumers use today – watches, fitness trackers and even appliances – into devices capable...
Mastercard announced on Monday (May 21) the creation of Accelerate, a new initiative to drive growth in the FinTech industry. In a press release, Mastercard said the initiative is aimed at supporting innovation in the FinTech industry via tailored support arrangements that include access to Mastercard insight,...
Mastercard has launched a new service that will automatically integrate fuel and maintenance data from a connected fleet car’s dashboard into the payment process. The solution will eliminate the need for company car drivers to manually enter in their driver ID and odometer reading every...
Mastercard and Santander announced a partnership that will issue debit cards to all the bank’s retail account customers on Mastercard’s network. According to Finextra, customers will start receiving cards at the beginning of next year as part of a four-year reissuing program and an eight-year...
Credit and debit spend higher? For Mastercard the answer was a resounding yes, as the global consumer remains quick to buy with plastic, and online too. Cross-border volumes are healthy, to the tune of a positive 21 percent gain. CEO Ajay Banga delved into the...
As biometrics have begun to represent the next generation in securing payments, Mastercard has unveiled a technological advancement for its own biometric cards. Cardholders can now register their fingerprints onto a biometric card at home through the new technology, the company said in an announcement. “Making life...
