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Reports of improper charges by perpetrators who know the victim soared last year. Issuers and card networks are failing to tighten security, clearly label transactions and police chargebacks, critics say.

The credit card network has teamed up with an ICBA unit and the fintech Urban FT to offer a payments services program tailored to community banks trying to keep pace with bigger banks.

Mastercard Inc. is concerned that India’s strict data localization rules could compromise its ability to detect frauds and money laundering in the domestic payments system.

After forming a series of high-profile partnerships with various payments service providers, China's UnionPay International has declared its plan to challenge Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly of the U.K. card industry.

Merchants are often the last in the payments ecosystem to know when card fraud occurs, and their losses tend to escalate in the meantime.

Mastercard is bringing Ethoca—a fraud solution powered by collaboration between banks and merchants—in-house.

To successfully create new payment forms and uses, it’s critical to have a highly functioning team developing and promoting their ideas — something Colleen Taylor has fully embraced at Mastercard.

Mastercard has dropped out of a recent bidding war with Visa to acquire Earthport, announcing it will instead buy Transfast, a different cross-border payments firm.

The Securities and Exchange Commission rejected the banks' arguments that the proposals amounted to shareholder micromanagement and that they have made ample disclosures.

Mobile payments adoption is patchy, but it's getting a higher profile in social media.