Recent events
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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.
2022
Algbra announces partnership with Mastercard
Algbra announced a partnership with Mastercard, including joining Mastercard's Priceless Planet Coalition. The partnership includes support to grow Algbra's card business and future global marketing projects.
2022
Network International launches Tap on Phone in MENA
Network International launched Tap on Phone technology in the MENA region, enabling smartphones to act as payment terminals. The service is powered by Mastercard Payment Gateway Services, and the article says around 500,000 new merchants across the region will soon be able to use it.
2022
UK regulator fines Mastercard and four other companies over prepaid-card cartel
The UK Payment Systems Regulator fined Mastercard and four other companies over cartel behaviour in the prepaid-card market. The article says the companies admitted breaking the law and settled with the regulator; Mastercard was fined £31.6 million.
2021
ConsenSys partners with Mastercard on Ethereum scalability solutions
ConsenSys partnered with Mastercard to debut ConsenSys Rollups, a software tool intended to support expansion on the Ethereum mainnet and private use.
2021
Mastercard partnered with Schoolvoice in MENA
Mastercard partnered with Schoolvoice, a UAE-based school-parents communication platform, to digitize the education experience for schools in the Middle East and North Africa. The collaboration is intended to simplify communications and enable automated payments between parents and schools.
2021
Worldline partners on card tokenisation solution
Worldline partnered with Visa, Mastercard, RuPay and card-issuing banks to build a tokenisation solution intended to help businesses comply with the Reserve Bank of India's card-detail storage requirement.
2021
Standard Chartered Bangladesh wins three Mastercard Excellence Awards
Standard Chartered Bangladesh won three awards at the Mastercard Excellence Award 2021 event in Dhaka, in domestic credit business, international credit business and contactless categories.
2021
Paycast, Marqeta and Mastercard announce marketplace payments partnership
Paycast, Marqeta and Mastercard announced a partnership to develop and launch a digital card product for marketplace sellers. Marqeta will provide its card issuing platform and virtual card functionality, while Mastercard will enable use of the cards on its network. The product is planned to become available for UK marketplaces and sellers in early 2022.
2021
Saks Fifth Avenue launches holiday campaign supporting Girls Opportunity Alliance
Saks Fifth Avenue launched a holiday campaign supporting the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance, featuring a New York flagship window unveiling and light show, a merchandise collection, a donation, and other activities.
2021
Brac Bank receives three Mastercard Excellence Awards
Brac Bank received three awards from Mastercard at the Mastercard Excellence Award 2021 ceremony in Dhaka on November 18, recognizing its contribution to innovation and business growth.
2021
Jobble and indi launch indi for Jobblers
Jobble and indi announced the launch of indi for Jobblers, a banking solution for gig workers that includes a debit card and mobile app.
2021
Paymob and Mastercard introduce Tap-on-Phone payments in Egypt
Paymob and Mastercard introduced a mobile payment solution that allows merchants to accept contactless payments using smartphones or tablets.
2021
Mabrian launches Global Sustainability Tourism Index
Mabrian Technologies launched its Global Sustainability Tourism Index, a dashboard of indicators for measuring and tracking destination tourism sustainability, developed in collaboration with Mastercard.
2021
Paymob partners with Mastercard on mobile payments
Egypt-based Paymob partnered with Mastercard on a mobile payment solution that turns smartphones and tablets into contactless payment acceptance devices.
2021
Mastercard partners with three crypto service providers on Asia-Pacific cards
Mastercard announced partnerships with Amber Group, Thailand's Bitkub and Australia's Coinjar to launch cryptocurrency-funded Mastercard payment cards in the Asia-Pacific region. The companies said consumers and businesses in the region would be able to apply for credit, debit or prepaid cards; the cards were described as planned, not yet launched.
2021
CRED launches Mastercard card-tokenization services
Mastercard and CRED announced the launch of card-on-file tokenization services on the CRED app using Mastercard’s MDES for Merchants platform.
2021
Bank Asia wins Mastercard remittance innovation award
Bank Asia won the 'Excellence in Mastercard Remittance Innovation 2020-21' award at the Mastercard Excellence Award 2021 event in Dhaka. The source says the event was held recently but gives no calendar day.
2021
PayU launches PayU Token Hub
PayU announced the launch of PayU Token Hub, a tokenisation solution built by PayU and Wibmo with card networks and issuing banks. It supports network and issuer tokens through a single hub and is available to merchants, including PayU merchants and issuers supported by Wibmo.
2021
Mastercard and LEAF partner on farmer network
Mastercard partnered with Lawrencedale Agro Processing India (LEAF), and the firms launched the LEAF Farmer Network. The platform is intended to support farmers across Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu with harvest-data digitisation, market access, crop expertise and connections with buyers.