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With Apple widely expected to unveil a new media service on Monday, it would do well to make sure it does not fall into the same traps that ensnared MoviePass.

Mastercard and Lazada, an Alibaba affiliate, have joined forces to collaborate on e-commerce systems for developing markets in the Southeast Asia region.

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.

Amazon, Accenture and Mastercard are using digital identity, blockchain and mobile payments to crack a window into sustainability and inclusion, but they’re also gaining potential retail benefits by capturing consumers who crave information about the origin of products.

Visa and Mastercard plan to raise interchange while battles over those rates and other levies such as merchant surcharging rage on, setting the stage for extra merchant expense, consumer costs and even more squabbling.

Arjuna Capital is filing shareholder proposals with 11 financial and tech companies to uncover median gender pay gaps, which it said would determine if more women are concentrated in lower-paying jobs.

In a move to strengthen the open banking hub it created last summer in the wake of Europe's PSD2 legislation, Mastercard will work with platform provider Token.io Ltd to serve European customers.

Martina Hund-Mejean will retire after more than a decade serving as chief financial officer at Mastercard.

Technology companies have pushed machine learning as a way to combat a fraud threat that's increasing in size and sophistication, and there are signs emerging security innovation is making a difference.

Mastercard has dropped its name in many brand references but it’s adding a customized sound, which consumers may begin to hear soon as they pay in stores and through voice assistants.

Paul Stoddart, CEO of Vocalink, has been named president of new payment platforms for Mastercard, starting March 1.