Next Saturday (March 28), MasterCard will kick off its third installment of the Masters of Code competition, this time in Singapore. The competition surrounds a series of hackathons where coders engage with MasterCard APIs to create meaningful prototypes that could potentially be used in real-world business...
Take 164 people split up into 29 teams, and add in 34.5 gallons of soda, 25.8 gallons of Red Bull, 173 rounds of Nerf gun ammo throughout 24 hours of intense developer activity. What do you get? The components of MasterCard’s Masters of Code, Hong...
MasterCard is teaming up with Silicon Valley Bank to once again power the highly selective, four-month virtual startup accelerator program called Commerce.Innovated. As the start of this year’s Spring Class is just around the corner, PYMNTS caught up with Gone!, a startup participant last year...
MasterCard announced yesterday that it has appointed Betty DeVita as Chief Commercial Officer of MasterCard Labs in New York, the company's team dedicated to the research and development of global payment innovations. Prior to this new role, DeVita served as President of MasterCard Canada. Effective...
Across the Asia-Pacific region, each market is on its own path to secure digital transactions. In Australia, two-thirds of MasterCard transactions are already contactless in-store payments. In more emerging markets like Indonesia, consumers are just getting online to transact with mobile devices, but are well...
This year’s Mobile World Congress may have ended a week ago, but post-conference conversations on where mobile’s going next abound. Following exciting, game-changing announcements made by MasterCard and other key players in the space, MPD CEO Karen Webster sat down with Jorn Lambert, Group Executive...
MasterCard CMO Raj Rajamannar has observed major changes in advertising as the practice has moved from digital into mobile. But what’s even more important than mobile, he says, is mobility. On the eve of speaking before the Mobile Media Summit @ Mobile World Congress, Rajamannar...
What’s the fastest growing mobile money market in the world? Africa. So much so that smartphone penetration across the continent is expected double in just four years - increasing from 17 percent in 2014 to 34 percent by the end of 2018. That’s of course...
MasterCard is on a roll with exciting announcements revealed at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Today, the company announced its findings from the third annual Mobile Payments Study. The study, developed with PRIME Research, tracked global social media posts across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Forums, Weibo...
