Mastercard & Ecobank Partner to Get More African Farmers Connected
America’s Mastercard (NYSE:MA) and Togo’s Ecobank Group yesterday announced a new partnership to connect millions of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa to...
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Mastercard & Ecobank Partner to Get More African Farmers Connected
America’s Mastercard and Togo’s Ecobank Group yesterday announced a new partnership to connect millions of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa to Mastercard’s Farm Pass – a digital...
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Mastercard SpendingPulse forecasts 7.5% back-to-school retail spending growth with department stores a 'noteworthy winner'
Mastercard SpendingPulse expects retail spending during the back-to-school period from mid-July through Labor Day to grow 7.5% this year, excluding automotive. Department stores are...
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Mastercard Buys Into NFTs, Enables Purchase Of Digital Art Using Credit Card
Mastercard, one of the largest payment companies in the world, has revealed plans to expand access to the market for non-fungible tokens via card payments. Traditional payment institutions...
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Mastercard to Implement Payments for NFT and Web3 Projects
Payments giant Mastercard has announced it is working to bring direct payment support for a number of NFT and Web3 platforms with its cards. According to the company, this will enable more...
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Mastercard Partners With Immutable X, The Sandbox for NFT Purchases Without Crypto
Mastercard has joined forces with Immutable X, and seven other entities to enable simplified and safe NFT purchases using fiat.
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Mastercard Now Allowing Cardholders to Buy NFTs
NFT transactions gained another mainstream step as payments giant Mastercard (MA) said its card holders can buy NFTs on various marketplaces without needing to first purchase...
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Mercadolibre Inks Partnership With Mastercard to Secure Its Crypto Ecosystem in Brazil
Mercadolibre, one of the biggest “e-tailers” in Latam, has partnered with credit giant Mastercard to make use of its tech to secure the cryptocurrency ecosystem of the company. Through this...
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Mastercard: ‘Buying an NFT Needs To Be Easier and Safer’
On Thursday (June 9), Mastercard, a leader in global payments, announced that it has partnered with several crypto startups to “enable NFT commerce.” According to a blog post published...
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Blockchain Firm Edge Launches Confidential Crypto Mastercard
The San Diego-based cryptocurrency firm Edge has announced the launch of a confidential crypto Mastercard that doesn’t collect KYC data and doesn’t charge transaction fees. Edge’s website...
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Fintech Startup Edge Release First Confidential Bitcoin Mastercard
Edge’s new card will not collect KYC data used to determine a person’s identity giving complete privacy and instant transfers with no fees.
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PayPal Price Target Cut to $129 at Morgan Stanley, While Mizuho Makes Case for $150
By Sam Boughedda Morgan Stanley analyst James Faucette lowered the firm's price target on PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) to $129 from $137 on Thursday, maintaining an Outperform rating on the...
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Mastercard Exec Explains How Crypto Can Go Mainstream
Mastercard’s VP Product for Digital Assets and Cross Border Payment Innovation says that crypto has to become “invisible” in order to reach mainstream audiences. Speaking at an online event...
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Mastercard shifts focus to Southeast Asia, LatAm after India ban, Russia exit
By Divya Chowdhury DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Southeast Asia and Latin America are strong growth regions for Mastercard after its withdrawal from Russia in March and India’s 2021 ban...
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MasterCard Executive Believes Mass Adoption Of Crypto Is Just Around The Corner
Harold Bosse, Vice President of new product development and innovation at MasterCard, revealed that corporations, investors, and executives are undeterred by the recent downturn in the...
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Tackling Visa and Mastercard fees could take years, says UK regulator
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – It could be years before card fees from global payments duo Mastercard and Visa can be capped again to cut costs for retailers and consumers, Britain’s...
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Mass Adoption of Crypto is Imminent, But Challenges Need to be Tackled: MasterCard VP
Harold Bossé said startups need to work on ideas that don’t exist today and get businesses to use new technologies to solve their problems.
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Pay ‘With A Smile Or A Wave’: Why Mastercard’s New Face Recognition Payment System Raises Concerns
Mastercard’s “smile to pay” system, announced last week, is supposed to save time for customers at checkouts. It is being trialled in Brazil, with future pilots planned for...
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Mastercard CEO Teases CBDC Panel: SWIFT May Not Exist in 5 Years
Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach spoke on a panel about the future of cross-border payments and CBDCs at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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: ‘Revenge travel’ started in 2021, but it’s really coming back with a vengeance in Summer 2022
Tourists are thirsty for experiences, according to new research.
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Mastercard Fosters Cashless Ecosystem in the Middle East and Africa
Financial services major Mastercard Inc. (NYSE: MA) recently revealed that the company has entered into a strategic partnership with mobile payment fintech company OPay to enhance the...
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Nigerian Unicorn OPay Signs Deal with Mastercard
Mastercard (NYSE:MA) and Nigeria-based fintech unicorn OPay today announced a strategic partnership to extend the service’s offerings across more of the Middle East and Africa. The...
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Nigerian Unicorn OPay Signs Deal with Mastercard
Mastercard and Nigeria-based fintech unicorn OPay today announced a strategic partnership to extend the service’s offerings across more of the Middle East and Africa. The collaboration...
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For the first time since the pandemic, leisure and business flights surpass 2019 levels
Global leisure and business flights topped pre-pandemic levels for the first time this spring, despite rising costs and geopolitical uncertainty.
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Mastercard to cover employee travel, lodging for out-of-state abortions
(Reuters) - Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) on Wednesday said it will fund travel and lodging for employees seeking abortions outside their home states from June, according to an internal memo...
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Mastercard joins other companies in covering employees’ travel for out-of-state abortions
“We will continue to offer employees access to the same health care, including family planning and reproductive benefits, that is available today wherever they live,” Mastercard told...
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Target, Lowe's, Netflix Fall Premarket; TJX Rises
By Peter Nurse Investing.com -- Stocks in focus in premarket trade on Wednesday, May 18th. Please refresh for updates. Target (NYSE:TGT) stock slumped 23% after the big-box...
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Goldman Sachs Launches Coverage on 8 Payments Stocks, Adds Visa to Its Conviction Buy List
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) analyst Will Nance launches research coverage on eight payment stocks with three stocks getting a Buy rating, four are Neutral-rated and only one payment stock is...
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Mastercard’s latest test would make credit cards obsolete by letting customers use their faces and finger prints to pay in stores
The credit card company envisions its new payment technology will play a big part in the burgeoning metaverse.
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Mastercard launches tech that lets you pay with your face or hand
Mastercard on Tuesday launched a program that allows retailers to offer biometric payment methods, like facial recognition and fingerprint scanning.
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Visa, Mastercard, & American Express: What is in the Cards After Q1 Earnings?
The rising global economic unpredictability emerging due to supply chain logjams, higher inflation, and an uptick in interest rates does not seem to have dampened t...
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Solid Prints Not Enough: Piper Sandler Cuts Visa and Mastercard on Rising Risk of Recession in Europe
Piper Sandler analyst Christopher Donat downgraded shares of Visa (NYSE:V) and Mastercard (NYSE:MA) to Neutral and Underweight, respectively to reflect the difficult macroeconomic...
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MasterCard Tops Q1 Views to Send Shares Higher, Analyst Praises 'Across-the-Board Outperformance'
Shares of Mastercard (NYSE:MA) surged 4% today after the financial services company reported Q1 results that exceeded analyst estimates. MA {{erl-7864||reported Q1 adjusted EPS of $2.76, up...
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MasterCard Tops Q1 EPS by 59c
MasterCard (MA) reported Q1 EPS of $2.76, $0.59 better than the analyst estimate of $2.17. Revenue for the quarter came in at $5.2 billion versus the consensus estimate of $4.91...
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Mastercard Earnings, Revenue beat In Q1
Investing.com - Mastercard (NYSE:MA) reported on Thursday first quarter {{erl-7864||earnings that beat analysts' forecasts and revenue that topped expectations. Mastercard announced...
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Inflation in Spain and Germany: 5 Key Topics this Thursday on the Stock Market
By Laura Sanchez Investing.com - Investors are looking ahead to important macroeconomic data today, including inflation in Spain and Germany and the European Central Bank's (ECB) Economic...
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Top 5 Things to Watch in Markets in the Week Ahead
By Noreen Burke Investing.com -- Investors will be eyeing a deluge of earnings in the coming week, including reports from tech titans Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google parent Alphabet amid...
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Trace and the Mastercard Foundation Launch Free Learning App for Young Africans
On Thursday, Trace and the Mastercard (NYSE:MA) Foundation launched Trace Academia, a free-to-use, interactive, mobile-based learning application that aims to enable 26 million young...
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Mastercard & Ukheshe Launch “First-of-its-Kind” Virtual Card Solution
South African fintech enablement partner Ukheshe Technologies says that it has started to process payments for Mastercard’s Track Instant Pay solution recently launched in the Middle...
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Nuvei Rises 6% On Ledger Partnership
By Sam Boughedda Investing.com -- Payment technology company Nuvei Corp (NASDAQ:NVEI) rose Wednesday on news it has partnered with Ledger, a company that develops security and infrastructure...
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