President Trump’s plan to cap the credit card interest at 10% for a one-year term has raised fervent discussions among financial industry experts and negatively affected the share price of major U.S. banks and credit card firms.
Mastercard and Tencent MIDAS have launched a new collaboration designed to speed up, secure, and simplify online payments across the global entertainment economy, making them password-free and fraud-resistant.
Mastercard confirmed that its Agent Pay platform, a breakthrough in agentic, AI-powered payments, is now live in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), making it the first market outside the U.S. to adopt this next-generation payments innovation.
Félix will integrate Mastercard Move into its platform, enabling senders to initiate transfers via the Félix chatbot on WhatsApp, using debit cards as a funding source for their remittances to Latin America.
Combining Mastercard global network with Zenith nationwide branch and digital footprint gives the Essential Debit Card product broad merchant acceptance and the ability to work across online channels. That mix helps co-branded cards compete with other domestic card schemes and fintech rails.
The partnership is designed to accelerate digital agenda of Ukraine by leveraging Mastercard expertise in payments innovation, digital infrastructure, and cybersecurity solutions.
The payments world is increasingly embracing crypto currencies, especially stablecoins and bitcoin, as key rails for real-world transactions. A new wave of partnerships and product rollouts is bringing digital-asset payouts and transfers into the mainstream, with major players like Mastercard, Cash App, and dLocal leveraging stablecoins to offer faster, more flexible, and more inclusive payment […]
Mastercard has announced a major push: by 2030, it aims to make online shopping payments in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region both password-free and number-free.
A potential settlement that can reshape merchant costs after decades of disputes is expected from Visa and Mastercard in the nearest future.
While everyone is eagerly watching the likes of OpenAI, Visa, and Mastercard unveil their visions for agentic AI, Huawei has made a bold and quietly strategic move of its own. With the launch of its FinAgent Booster (FAB), the Chinese tech giant has stepped decisively into the financial AI agent ecosystem not as an observer, but […]
Digital scams surge across Indonesia, costing billions, with customers believing public organizations should provide better fraud protection: the new GASA report calls for urgent action.
As the technology develops in giant strides and new iPhone models are delivered each year, it sounds extremely strange that the backbone of omnipresent card payment systems is still the protocol that’s almost forty years old. Even with its last major revision in 2003, the upgraded version of ISO 8583 is a couple decades too […]
European PayTech Nexi becomes the first in Italy to offer Visa Direct and Mastercard Move, enabling faster, more efficient payments directly to customer cards.
Just as stablecoin settlements are gaining momentum in the B2B segment, payment service providers are taking very different paths in the stablecoin payments revolution, with strategies ranging from bold integration to cautious observation. Here are four main stablecoin adoption archetypes shaping the next phase of digital payments.
Agentic payments and AI commerce are high on the paytech agenda today. Their potential is undoubtedly immense, but practical implementation, as always, relies on the tech stack functionality. As we see fintech giants delivering agentic payment protocols en masse, let’s put them under scrutiny.
The new certification from both major payment networks in India strengthens Unlimit’s role in the nation’s expanding digital payments market.
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