His thinking began to change as eCommerce began to gain ground. David Yates was working at First Data, running its international business, and online retail, as he recalled in a new PYMNTS interview, was “really starting to lift off.” He started to really consider the...
Mastercard is working to simplify the daily commute through its “Tap and Ride” program, available in more than 150 cities. A new global study shows that metro systems around the world are carrying close to 170 million passengers each day, and with that number only...
Mastercard reportedly has lodged a protest with the U.S. government over the use of nationalism by the government in India to promote a domestic payments network there. According to a Reuters exclusive, “Mastercard told the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on June...
Mastercard continued the trend of strong earnings results from payments players, with double-digit gains across several metrics on a global scale. CEO Ajay Banga told analysts that B2B payments and SRC remain front and center as long-term drivers of top-line growth.
The world has a plastic problems — a fact illustrated earlier this week when researchers from the Environment Agency Austria and the Medical University of Vienna jointly presented evidence that there is so much plastic in the environment that we’ve actually begun to inadvertently eat it....
Mastercard, the digital payments company, made the case in a blog post Monday (Oct. 22) on why it supports EMVCo’s release of the EMV Secure Remote Commerce Specification draft, which is now available for public review and comment. In a blog post, Jorn Lambert, executive...
There are few disappointments in life quite as indelible as a long-anticipated vacation that crashes and burns because of a bad experience at a hotel. Most consumers have at least one horror story about a long-anticipated trip derailed by the sound of jackhammers all day because of a hotel...
Mastercard, the payments company, announced on Thursday (Oct. 18) that cardholder signatures will now be optional for the back of credit cards and receipts. In a press release, Mastercard said it is making the changes due to advancements in technology and security. “With modern, advanced forms...
Mastercard said Wednesday (Oct. 17) that it will enable tokenization services on all cards by 2020, as part of its Digital Commerce Solutions, a suite of offerings geared toward making online transactions speedier and more secure. The company said more than half of online shoppers save...
