The SHAZAM Network announced yesterday that has teamed up with MasterCard to offer an EMV debit solution to its participants, according to a SHAZAM release. The Network expects the chip card adoption to decrease fraud and increase transaction security, and the agreement provides all Network...
Jumping into the lucrative world of in-app purchasing – where free games can make as much as $1 million per day – MasterCard will enable in-app payments for its MasterPass digital payment system beginning in early August, the company announced in recent blog post. Retailers will...
Times have changed since Discover and American Express both helped the U.S. Justice Department prove its case that Visa and MasterCard exerted too much competitive influence in the card market by preventing banks from issuing cards carrying their brand marks. Now Discover has turned against...
Who better than a mobile operator to actually deploy mobile authentication solutions for commerce? Well, that’s at least the opinion of AT&T who soon plans to test a service for international travelers so that they can avoid declined card transactions. How will their solution compete...
U.K. citizens want more mobile banking, but British businesses have been slow to adapt to eCommerce, according to MasterCard. “I believe we need to prioritize support for innovative start-ups, businesses in the eCommerce and mobile payments sector for example, which are in a unique position...
Visa and MasterCard are trying to find new ways to work around Chinese regulation that prevent the foreign card companies from processing yuan transactions. While Chinese consumers can use foreign cards, currently they are allowed to do so for the clearance of foreign currency, as...
The Fed says that prepaid card payments are the fastest growing non-cash payment method in the U.S. Ron Hynes, Global Head of Prepaid Solutions for MasterCard tells PYMNTS.com why and, more importantly, what’s next for the future of prepaid.
For all of you bitcoin fanatics who also love MasterCard, some good news arrived this week. MasterCard filed a patent earlier this week that would potentially incorporate bitcoin into its design for a planned global online shopping cart. Titled ‘Payment Interchange for Use With Global...
MasterCard’s “Priceless” branding is designed to remind consumers that using a MasterCard product delivers benefits that go well beyond the act of making a purchase. Winning in the affluent market, says Diana Robino, Senior VP Global Affluent Products at MasterCard, starts with a focus on...
