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As Visa and Mastercard pull out, options appear slim for Russian banks, cardholders

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 8, 2022
Russian banks may have to turn to Chinese processor UnionPay.
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Mastercard is saying goodbye to the magnetic stripe

by Kristin Schwab
Aug 18, 2021
Credit-card changes are driven by security concerns, and it turns out that signature swipe has its own swath of problems.
Mastercard plans to swap the swipe payment process for the chip and touchless tap.
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Those without bank accounts face special challenges during a pandemic

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Apr 28, 2020
Mastercard has a new plan to make digital banking more accessible.
Mastercard is expanding its program, pledging to get a billion unbanked people and 50 million unbanked very small businesses into the formal financial system within five years.
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Should credit card companies tackle gun sales?

by Andy Uhler
Feb 20, 2018
Andrew Ross Sorkin had an interesting column in the New York Times yesterday — a business and economic take on how to make mass shootings less common. PayPal and Square, Sorkin pointed out, decided years ago not to let people use their services to buy guns. What about Mastercard and Visa, he wondered. Or the […]
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PayPal deal with MasterCard a step toward mobile payment ubiquity

by Lewis Wallace
Sep 7, 2016
The online payment service and its would-be competitors are working out the kinks.
It'll now be easier to link PayPal payments to a MasterCard account.
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MasterCard wants to put your selfie game to good use

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 23, 2016
Securing transactions one duck face at a time
Selfies may be the way of the future. 
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Mastercard loses USAA customers to Visa

by Tracey Samuelson
Oct 26, 2015
The change is part of a shift in the balance of power in the credit card business
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Now you can authorize mobile payments with a selfie

by Molly Wood
Jul 3, 2015
Buy some coffee, take a selfie. Buy a shirt, take a selfie. Buy some ice cream...
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A new credit score gives credit for paying phone bills

by Dan Weissmann
Apr 2, 2015
Still in a pilot phase, the new score would help people with no credit cards.
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Mastercard's goes digital with e-wallet 'Masterpass'

by Molly Wood
Mar 22, 2013
Could electronic wallets become as common as cellphones? Paypal and Google sure hope so. But Mastercard has a plan for this future, too.
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