Mastercard

MasterCard Selects New Exec To Lead Global Prepaid Solutions
January 16, 2015

Effective on January 15, MasterCard has appointed Michael Fiore as group executive of Global Prepaid Solutions, according to a company release. Fiore will lead the ongoing development and execution of the company’s global prepaid strategies in his new role.

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MasterCard and Masabi Partner To Simplify Commuters’ Lives
January 15, 2015

Consumers are constantly looking for ways to simplify their lives; this includes everything from online banking to public transit. MasterCard now has their hand in each of these scenarios. The company announced today that it’s joining forces with Masabi, provider of mobile ticketing for transit,...

MasterCard’s Sarah Quinlan On Top US Retail Spending Trends Of 2014
December 31, 2014

This year, MasterCard took several big steps toward a future where “every device is a commerce device.” From boosting digital payments security with advancements in tokenization, to playing a significant role in the launch of Apple Pay and contactless payments around the world, to further...

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You’ll Never Guess What Category Will Lead Holiday Shopping This Year
December 23, 2014

Hint. It isn’t something you can put under the tree. Super Saturday, which was just a few days ago, might have delivered retail sales, but what’s really driving revenue for retailers this holiday season is experiences. Sarah Quinlan, SVP and Group Head of Market Insights...

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Building the Next Big Thing
December 23, 2014

There are over 1.3 million software engineers in the world, including coders, but who are the Top 10 and where they can be found? MasterCard has designed a series of hackathons that will travel the world in search of the very best developers, designers and...

How Tokenization Will Transform The “Holy Trinity” Of Payments
December 18, 2014

  Customer experience. Security. Ubiquity. These, says Matt Barr, Group Head, US Emerging Payments at MasterCard, make up the “holy trinity” of payments. In a recent interview with MPD CEO Karen Webster, Barr and Shannon Johnson, SVP Head of Checking & Payments, SunTrust offered a...

The Roadmap For Keeping U.S. Payments Secure
December 16, 2014

The U.S. Payments Security Task Force (PST) was established earlier this year and dared to go where no task force has ever gone before: it has created a roadmap for protecting cardholder data at the merchant point of sale. It was a pretty daunting assignment....

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MasterCard’s Big Interactive Payments Bet
December 09, 2014

MasterCard is turning plastic, digital. It wants the world to say goodbye to “static” cards and hello to a new age of digital, “dynamic” interactive cards – an innovation that MasterCard Group Exec, Global Credit and Debit Products Carlos Menendez says is part of a...

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How MasterCard Will Bring Financial Services To East Africa
December 09, 2014

There is no shortage of efforts to bring financial inclusion to those in developing economies who lack access to basic financial services. Most have failed for one very important reason – they’ve been unable to scale. The announcement last week of MasterCard’s partnership with The...