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Mastercard partners Bakkt for crypto push

Mastercard is joining force with Bakkt to make it easier for merchants, banks and fintechs to offer cryptocurrency services.

25 October 2021

Company announcement/crypto

DeFi platform EQIFI launches crypto Mastercard

EQIFI, the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for lending, borrowing, and investing for ETH, stablecoins, and select fiat currencies, has today announced the launch of its global, secure, crypto Mastercards.

21 October 2021

Company announcement/payments

TNM Mpamba issues Malawi’s first Mastercard debit card linked to a mobile money wallet

In a country-first for Malawi, mobile money service provider TNM Mpamba today launched a Mastercard debit card, enabling its customers – even those without bank accounts – to make safe and seamless in-person and online digital payments on the Mastercard network.

21 October 2021

News/payments

Mastercard unlocks working capital with Demica

Mastercard is to embed working capital into its Track Business Payments package through a partnership with supply chain finance specialist Demica.

21 October 2021

Company announcement

Previse turns to Mastercard to speed cross-border payments

Mastercard and Previse today announced the integration of Mastercard Cross-Border Services – a global push payments platform that enables funds to be sent seamlessly, securely and with certainty to any account – into Previse’s InstantPay platform.

18 October 2021

Company announcement/startups

Hong Kong’s Bloom partners with Visa to create spending cashback app

In celebration of its first anniversary, local technology startup Bloom announced a collaboration with Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, to create Hong Kong’s first true spending cash-back app. Starting today, Bloom’s app, named Bloom, comes with a major upgrade to user experience, helping smart consumers build a simplistic yet trendy lifestyle.

15 October 2021

Company announcement/payments

Mastercard tapped by Pakistan Government to create country's first cashless zone

Mastercard has signed a strategic digital country partnership with the Special Technology Zones Authority (STZA) in Pakistan to expand the nation’s digital economy and advance Pakistan’s technology sector.

14 October 2021

Company announcement/payments

Pakistan's JazzCash to issue Mastercard debit cards

Pakistan’s leading mobile account provider, JazzCash, in collaboration Mastercard, is strengthening the country’s digital payments ecosystem. J

13 October 2021

Finextra TV/payments

Real-time, financial inclusion & removing friction with Mastercard

Paul Francis Walvik Joynt, Senior Vice President Payments International at Mastercard Payment Services, brings FinextraTV up to date with where we are as an industry in regards to real-time payments. We learn more about the primary drivers for this development, the role technology and cloud based solutions have played, the challenges to be address by financial institutions connecting to real time schemes and how Mastercard is supporting it's customers through their application Bill Pay.

12 October 2021

Finextra TV/payments

The network effect: How cross-border connections can reach the world

Stephen Grainger, Executive Vice President, Cross-Border Services, Mastercard speaks to FinextraTV during Sibos about areas we can improve the cross-border payment experience for businesses and consumers, the increasing amounts of collaboration across the payments industry and how Mastercard is working with digital players and financial service providers to support the growing need for cross-border payments.

12 October 2021

Company announcement/inclusion

Mastercard and Citi team on financial inclusion and stability

Mastercard and Citi today announced a new partnership to support local residents and small businesses through greater public-private sector collaboration.

07 October 2021

Company announcement/payments

Mastercard partners with Digital PayGo to drive secure payments for SMEs in Zambia

Mastercard has partnered with Zambian-based fintech company, Digital PayGo, to launch a new merchant mobile payments solution, which will enable Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to safely make and receive digital payments through various online channels.

06 October 2021