Tag: Mastercard

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Welcome to the Ukraine, Comrad: JCB Credit Card Heads North to Russia

by Brian Riley

November 7, 2018

World events impact global networks. With all the talk about banking sanctions against Iran, do not expect your Mastercard or ...

Tap Dancing on the MTA: From Credit Card Swipe to Dip then Wave

by Brian Riley

November 6, 2018

Just as the U.S. market shifted from the muscle memory of swiping their credit card to dipping it into an ...

Using Traditional Payment Rails to Enable Blockchain Payments Is Not the Best Solution

by Tim Sloane

November 2, 2018

The advantage to a virtual currency, should one ever be accepted in the US as legal tender, is that it ...

Mastercard Calls out Indian Prime Minister on Nationalism for Payment Cards

by Brian Riley

November 1, 2018

India’s recent demand to localize data met with some resistance for an October 16, 2018 compliance date, though Mastercard was ...

Will This Holiday Season Change E-commerce Forever?

Mastercard is Convinced SRC Common Buy Button Will Win Out Over All Others

by Tim Sloane

October 31, 2018

Consumers are drowning in Buy Buttons from merchants, mobile OS suppliers, and merchants, but Ajay Banga, Mastercard’s president and chief ...

Visa and Mastercard Leverage Their Dominant Role in Tokenization to Extend to the Merchant Side (UPDATED)

by Aaron McPherson

October 23, 2018

I hate to say “I told you so,” but as I wrote over two years ago in my blog, The ...

No Signature, No Signature Panel

by Sarah Grotta

October 18, 2018

The way consumers authenticate card payments has changed dramatically over the past decade. Chip cards, contactless payments, biometrics, and tokenization ...