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MasterPass Moves Into Online Grocery
December 15, 2015

Online fresh food grocer FreshDirect is teaming up with MasterCard to help enhance the online grocery shopping experience of its customers. Through the partnership, FreshDirect customers will now have the ability to utilize MasterCard’s digital payments platform, MasterPass, during the online and in-app payment process. MasterPass...

Man In The Middleware
November 17, 2015

If offering a superb user experience is what keeps loyal consumers coming back, why do most loyalty programs today fail to deliver that engagement? James Anderson, Group Executive of Platforms, Emerging Payments at MasterCard, sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to share why MasterCard...

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MasterCard Goes All-In On Zero Liability
November 11, 2015

Many of the rules surrounding consumer protection against unauthorized transactions are not only inconsistent, but also pretty dated. Nancy O’Malley, Group Executive and Chief Payment System Integrity Officer of MasterCard, briefed MPD CEO Karen Webster on its global initiative to modernize the zero liability promise...

MasterCard Forecasts Strong Holiday Sales
November 10, 2015

With Black Friday just weeks away, both retailers and consumers alike are gearing up for (or even already in the midst of) the holiday shopping season. Armed with the retail sales data from its SpendingPulse analytics tool, MasterCard revealed the biggest trends for this year’s...

MasterCard Helps Kenyan Farmers Access Capital
November 05, 2015

MasterCard Labs’ first innovation event in Kenya has come away with some agricultural ideas. Having launched MasterCard Labs for Financial Inclusion — an initiative that MasterCard stated was designed to impact the lives of more than 100 million people around the world “by developing practical and...

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MasterPass Brings Tokenization Online
October 26, 2015

MasterCard is marking a first for the payments ecosystem by integrating tokenization into its MasterPass digital wallet, bringing that security capability into the realms of online and mobile transactions. Vib Prasad, Group Head of MasterPass Global, talks with MPD CEO Karen Webster about the whole...

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Taking Corporate Travel Payments Mobile
October 21, 2015

Striking a balance between instituting corporate controls and providing a frictionless user experience is an ongoing challenge in the travel and expense management market. Richard Crum, Group Head, Global T&E Products & Solutions at MasterCard, sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to explain how...

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How MasterCard Fuels Smarter Cities
October 15, 2015

Transforming an urban hub into a “smart city” requires the coordination of many moving pieces. But at its core is data and intelligence needed to both establish connectivity and drive innovation. Craig Vosburg, Chief Product Officer at MasterCard, sat down with PYMNTS to discuss how payments data can be used to help power the interoperability...

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The Gas Station Goes Mobile
October 07, 2015

A new partnership between MasterCard and P97 Networks is bringing mobile payments to the gas pump using a cloud-based solution that requires no hardware upgrades. Donald Frieden, President and CEO at P97 Networks, and Kurt Weiss, Senior Vice President/Group Head - Mobile Transaction Services -...