Latest Mastercard News: Finextra Research

PayOS and Mastercard complete milestone agentic payment transaction

PayOS and Mastercard have completed an autonomos agentic payment transaction using a Mastercard Agentic Token.

23 hours

Sibos 2025: How to build the bank of tomorrow

Following the popular session on building tomorrow’s bank at Sibos 2024, McKinsey’s Megha Kansal moderated a follow-up session on the year’s developments in Frankfurt.

30 September 2025

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Pleo moves into embedded finance

European spend management platform Pleo has worked with Mastercard to launch an embedded finance offering that helps businesses managing large networks of SMB customers to offer real-time financial intelligence via spend and cash management capabilities directly from their own platform.

25 September 2025

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Paytently and Mastercard team on open banking payments

Payments orchestration platform Paytently has unveiled an open banking-based account-to-account payment service built on Mastercard technology.

11 September 2025

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Citi and US Bank customers get first access to Mastercard Agent Pay

Citi and US Bank customers will be the first to get access to Mastercard's agentic payments technology ahead of a global rollout.

11 September 2025

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Mastercard launches On-Demand Decisioning tool

Mastercard has moved to give financial institutions more control over authorisation decisions through the launch of the On-Demand Decisioning (ODD) tool.

09 September 2025

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Ant unit debuts agentic AI payments tech

Ant International's Antom unit has launched an agentic AI payments offering that supports both card-based and alternative methods.

05 September 2025

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Mastercard and Zand launch cross-border payments solution in UAE

UAE-based fintech Zand has announced a collaboration with Mastercard Move’s money solutions to power cross-border payments.

14 August 2025

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Mastercard unveils A2A Protect in the UK

Mastercard is rolling out A2A Protect in the UK, a new service designed to help banks protect consumers from account-to-account payment fraud and resolve disputes.

28 July 2025