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2026
Mastercard and Skyfire collaborate on agent identification and verification
Mastercard is working with Skyfire, a provider of Know Your Agent technology, to help financial institutions and merchants identify trusted agents and make better-informed authorization decisions.
2026
Mastercard and Cloudflare collaborate on AI payment trust
Mastercard is working with Cloudflare and other partners to build a privacy-preserving computing environment for identifying AI-driven payment activity. The article also says the two are exploring how to combine internet and payment-network signals to improve transaction transparency.
2026
TenPay Global and Mastercard sign cooperation memorandum
TenPay Global and Mastercard signed a cooperation memorandum covering inbound QR-code payments, cross-border remittances and agent payments.
2026
Sunrate Agentic Card receives Mastercard AgentPay certification
Sunrate said its Agentic Card had received Mastercard AgentPay certification.
2026
Mastercard launches Agent Pay trust and intelligence services
Mastercard announced a new suite of trust and intelligence services for its Agent Pay program, combining identity verification, intent recognition, behavior analysis and fraud insights to provide context for AI-driven payment transactions.
2026
Sunrate and Mastercard jointly publish B2B AI payments white paper
Sunrate and Mastercard jointly published a white paper on AI-agent payments in the B2B industry.
2026
Mastercard launches partnership with six Hong Kong entrepreneurs
Mastercard launched a partnership with six women entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, offering Mastercard cardholders promotional offers through the six merchants from March 8 to March 31, 2021.
2026
Mastercard and Yeng Kee Bakery collaborate on mask donations
Mastercard formed a collaboration with Macau's Yeng Kee Bakery under which a box of face masks would be donated to charity for qualifying mooncake purchases through the bakery's online shop by Mastercard cardholders in Hong Kong or Macau.
2026
Mastercard Global Money Platform introduced
Mastercard and BVNK introduced the Mastercard Global Money Platform, an infrastructure offering that connects traditional financial tools with stablecoin services through a single API. The service is available through BVNK.
2026
Mastercard launches Global Money Platform for stablecoin payments, its first major integration with BVNK
Mastercard announced on Thursday, October 15, 2026, the launch of its Global Money Platform, a service that lets businesses hold and convert fiat currencies and stablecoins, offer stablecoin-linked cards, and pay directly from stablecoin balances into recipients' local bank accounts. The company describes it as its first major integration with BVNK, the stablecoin infrastructure firm it acquired in August. The platform connects to Mastercard Move and Mastercard's merchant network, with Nuvei and Marqeta among the first integration partners.
2026
Mastercard and BVNK launch Global Money Platform combining fiat currencies and stablecoins
Mastercard and BVNK announced on Thursday that they launched the Mastercard Global Money Platform, which integrates Mastercard's payment network with BVNK's stablecoin infrastructure through a single API, allowing banks, fintech firms and businesses to offer multi-currency accounts including fiat and stablecoins, real-time conversion, stablecoin-linked cards and local bank payouts through Mastercard Move under their own brand.
2026
Xsolla enables Citi ThankYou Points redemption for video game purchases through Xsolla Checkout
On October 8, 2026, Xsolla announced that eligible Citi Mastercard cardmembers can now use Citi ThankYou Points toward video game and in-game digital goods purchases through Xsolla Checkout. The redemption capability runs through the existing Xsolla Payments integration and is powered by Mastercard's digital redemption technology, allowing studios already using Xsolla Payments to offer points as a payment option without a separate loyalty integration.
2026
Visa and Mastercard agree to $167.5 million class-action settlement over ATM fees
Visa and Mastercard have agreed to pay a total of $167.5 million (approximately $88.8 million from Visa and $78.7 million from Mastercard) to settle the class-action lawsuit Burke v. Visa Inc., et al., in which plaintiffs alleged the payment networks violated federal and state antitrust laws by prohibiting independent ATM operators from lowering withdrawal fees and forcing cardholders to pay higher ATM access fees, which the suit called a 'price fixing scheme across all ATMs.' Consumers charged unreimbursed non-bank ATM fees between Oct. 24, 2007 and Aug. 14, 2026 may file claims by Feb. 10, 2027, with the final approval hearing scheduled for Feb. 17, 2027.
2026
Hilton partners with Bank of Communications and Mastercard to launch co-branded credit cards in China
Hilton announced a strategic partnership with Bank of Communications and Mastercard to launch two Hilton Honors co-branded credit cards in China, the Bank of Communications Hilton Honors Mastercard World Card and the Bank of Communications Hilton Honors Mastercard Beyond Platinum Card, which went live on August 18, 2026.
2022
KTC and Mastercard launch Bangkok dining guide
KTC and Mastercard jointly launched the “Culinary Collective in Bangkok” guide book featuring 50 premium restaurants. The announcement also described cardmember discounts and other privileges.
2022
EonX and Mastercard sign Australian payments development agreement
EonX Technologies Inc. signed an agreement with Mastercard Asia Pacific to support development of EonX’s account-to-account capabilities in Australia.
2022
Aplazo and Mastercard partner on a BNPL virtual card for Latin America
Aplazo announced a partnership with Mastercard to launch a virtual card solution offering buy-now-pay-later installments in Latin America.
2022
Flutterwave announces new fintech services and card platform
Flutterwave said it would introduce services including a Fintech as a Service solution and a card-issuing technology platform for businesses to issue virtual and physical debit and prepaid cards in partnership with Mastercard.
2022
Mastercard and SBI Payments support digital-payments outreach
Mastercard and SBI Payments spoke to micro-merchants during Team Cashless India engagements in Guwahati, Lucknow and Varanasi to promote acceptance of digital payments.
2022
Mastercard partners with Massmart on digital commerce access for small businesses
Mastercard partnered with retail group Massmart to connect small, medium, and micro-enterprises to digital commerce solutions. The collaboration also enabled small traders to purchase point-of-sale devices at discounted prices.