Binance announced a partnership with Mastercard this week to launch a prepaid card in Brazil, the second initiative of its kind in Latin America after a previous rollout in Argentina.
Mastercard said today that is acquiring Finicity, a leader in real-time access to financial data, for $825 million; there is...
Banks and fintech firms are in competition over payments systems and each thinks real-time payments should be run differently; Bank...
WhatsApp launches payments in Brazil and is unceremoniously shut down by the central bank a week later, MasterCard buys Finicity to protect itself against Visa’s recent acquisition of Plaid, Checkout.com continues its largely silent meteoric rise in payments, Softbank-backed and DAX 30 index component Wirecard “loses" $2 billion from its balance sheet and files for insolvency, Upgrade raises $40 million at a $1 billion valuation to extend its personal credit offering.
Fintech platform SoFi has struck a new exclusive partnership with card issuer Mastercard to be the sole issuer for SoFi...
In our second Office Hours session, Scott Abrahams discussed innovation in the payments sector and achieving expansion without friction.
I anchor around the issues Libra is seeing in trying to develop a money, and what alternate strategies are available. We also analyze elements of a JP Morgan 2020 blockchain report, which highlights the differences between running a financial products (like a money) and a financial software (like a payments processor). In light of this necessary pivot for the regulated Facebook, we look again at Ethereum's decentralized finance ecosystem and the types of challengers it has created for Jack Henry, Finastra, Envestnet, TradeWeb, and other infrastructure providers.
While speaking with CNBC Mastercard’s Vice Chairman Ann Cairns discussed the importance of digital identity in the next few years;...
Santander’s partnership with MasterCard will make them the first UK big five bank to issue a debit card with MasterCard;...
Mastercard and JP Morgan have partnered to bring open banking payments to billpaying. This is just the first development from the partnership.