Throughout the 2014 baseball season, MasterCard has been surprising fans with Priceless Surprises. After Apple Pay's recent launch, MasterCard, together with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, surprised MLB fans by enabling the new payment technology at both the Kansas City Royals and San Francisco Giants...
MasterCard launched its Nearby App as a companion app for Apple Pay, enabling consumers to locate the 220,000+ merchants in the United States that can currently accept contactless payments.
What does it take to enable the future of commerce? We’re no longer talking contactless payments on just smartphones and tablets – the focus is now on turning every device into a commerce device, says MasterCard’s Chief Emerging Payments Officer Ed McLaughlin. To coincide with...
Mobile-payments startup Mozido has collected the first $185 million of a planned $400 million round of financing led by MasterCard, the Austin Business Journal reported on Wednesday (Oct. 22). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
Newgen Software and MasterCard are working today to support faster and more secure B2B payments throughout Asia Pacific. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...
MasterCard Thursday (Oct. 2) announced the launch of SafetyNet, which it said was a preemptive security system “to identify potential attacks before they start and in some cases before the bank or processor is even aware.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
The biggest surprise in August’s retail sales numbers was actually of no surprise to Sarah Quinlan, SVP of MasterCard’s Market Insights. Quinlan’s read of those tea leaves all along pointed to continued spending. Yet Quinlan told MPD CEO Karen Webster that she’s not as convinced...
MasterCard is labeling “successful” a biometrics payments trial (facial plus voice) where more than 14,000 transactions were confirmed in a closed iOS and Android pilot using only MasterCard employees, according to a Computerworld report. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
In the wake of the launch of Apple Pay, MasterCard announced that it recently held a closed pilot to understand the consumer experience around voice and facial recognition, according to a company blog post by Ajay Bhalla, President, Enterprise Safety and Security at MasterCard.
