Mastercard has been awarded a patent for a proposed blockchain system that would support multiple types of currency. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...
Mastercard is providing increased peace of mind for World and World Elite cardholders, announcing on Tuesday (Oct. 9) two new benefits for those customers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
When Mastercard launched Send in 2015, the focus was on making it easy to move money quickly between businesses and people using the debit card as the proxy. Send doesn’t just work with Mastercard branded cards, either, Jess Turner, executive vice president of digital payments at...
To help make more informed authorization decisions, KeyBank is turning to Mastercard Decision Intelligence. The system, which uses artificial intelligence (AI), will allow KeyBank to increase the accuracy of real-time approvals of genuine transactions and will help enhance the cardholder experience, Mastercard said in an announcement. Get...
Microsoft Pay announced that it now supports Masterpass by Mastercard. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this...
Since the migration to EMV in the largest card market in the world (the U.S. in October of 2015), the incidences of counterfeit card fraud at chip-enabled merchants have fallen sharply — some 76 percent, as reported by card networks. Once cards became significantly harder to clone, fraudsters took their...
An outage caused Mastercard customers around the world to be blocked from using their credit cards. It was not clear what caused the outage, which led to a number of complaints to banks and other card issuers, from customers across much of Europe and the...
As the second payment services directive (PSD2) is set to take effect in Europe next year, Mastercard wants to test out its fingerprint-scanning cards in the U.K. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
To verify payment cards at the point of sale (POS), Mastercard is looking into blockchain technology. In a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the company said it has devised a process to send and retrieve payment credentials through a “publicly accessible...
