Mastercard

Mastercard is aggressively building a business payments ecosystem as it keeps an eye on political headwinds it has little control over.

Nobody will be keen to go toe-to-toe with the Fed, which is the financial systems’ paramount regulator and central bank with virtually unlimited resources, says Intrepid Ventures' Eric Grover.

Mastercard's positioning its effort as a call to action — instead of a mandate — to bring stakeholders together to produce best practices to project data.

Mastercard has launched two separate initiatives that touch the health care market — blockchain for visibility in food systems and Mastercard Healthcare Solutions to detect fraud and bring efficiencies in health care organizations.

Facebook’s cryptocurrency would not help underserved communities, despite the claims of its CEO, who is slated to appear before Congress this week.

The card networks’ new buy button, called "click to pay," is merely a stepping stone to providing a foundation for pervasive, invisible payments.

Responding to the fast pace of payments technology and its impact on privacy and data security, Mastercard plans to recruit a range of companies, educational institutions and agencies to produce a set of best practices.

Mastercard plans to acquire loyalty and marketing company SessionM to help its merchant clients build their brands and grow their businesses.

Facebook’s cryptocurrency would not help underserved communities, despite the claims of its CEO, who is slated to appear before Congress this week.

Following months of preparation, Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover announced the launch of "click to pay," a new streamlined checkout process that functions similarly at all participating e-commerce sites.