Facebook is launching a WhatsApp-based digital payments service for the messaging app’s 120m Brazilian users; users will be able to...
Mastercard and JP Morgan have partnered to bring open banking payments to billpaying. This is just the first development from the partnership.
Binance announced a partnership with Mastercard this week to launch a prepaid card in Brazil, the second initiative of its kind in Latin America after a previous rollout in Argentina.
The US has lagged the rest of the world in the use of contactless payments and it has taken the...
The principle behind Mastercard’s CipherTrace acquisition, L1 growth, and IRS getting your bank data
Paying attention is the path to seeing and doing. Mastercard has bought CipherTrace to see blockchain-based finance, to launch new businesses, and to plug in more networks into its nexus. The crypto networks proliferate at every layer, creating more computation on Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Fantom, and Solana. The US executive seeks to see more too, asking the banks for their records of financial transactions to enforce taxation compliance.
Coinbase and Mastercard announced a partnership to offer users more "payment choices" on the upcoming Coinbase NFT platform.
There is poetry in the symmetry of this situation. Bitfinex is looking to raise $1 billion in capital to support the most popular stablecoin Tether, which it controls. Facebook is reportedly looking to raise $1 billion in capital from First Data, Visa and Mastercard and other payments companies to shore up its own stablecoin asset. Poetry is where the similarities end, and all these devils are in the details.
Fintech platform SoFi has struck a new exclusive partnership with card issuer Mastercard to be the sole issuer for SoFi...
Mastercard has gained approval from the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) to enter the Chinese market as a bank card...
Banks and fintech firms are in competition over payments systems and each thinks real-time payments should be run differently; Bank...