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Post-Brexit interchange fee plan prompts outcry from U.K. merchants
Mastercard maps out plans to return U.S. workers to offices
Mastercard and Visa take their rivalry to crypto
Citi streamlines corporate disbursements with Mastercard Send
Mastercard rewrites rules for banks backing pornography sellers
Visa, Mastercard face new pushback in $5.5 billion retailer suit
Visa and Mastercard are facing fresh opposition from U.S. retailers in a long-running legal fight over the fees merchants pay each time consumers swipe their credit or debit card at checkout. ]] ... Read full article
Mastercard ties executive bonuses to environmental, social goals
Executive vice presidents and above will be evaluated on how they contributed to progress on efforts to curb the firm’s use of carbon, improve financial inclusion and reach gender-pay parity, CEO Michael Miebach said in a memo to staff. ]] ... Read full article
Card brands postpone fee hike, but merchants want interchange reform
Mastercard and Visa's one-year delay is only a partial victory for retailers, who want the networks to have less power to set rates. ]] ... Read full article
Banks want to regain control of consumer bill pay. Mastercard offers help.
The card brand's data exchange platform, which provides mobile real-time processing, has gained support from the likes of PNC and Citizens. ... Read full article
Mastercard's buy-in a turning point for crypto payments
The global card brand is positioning itself to play a key role in the development of central bank digital currencies. ... Read full article
Mastercard suffers legal setback in European interchange battle
The U.K. Supreme Court has rejected Mastercard’s attempt to force individual lawsuits over claims the card brand overcharged consumers and negatively impacted competition for more than a decade. ... Read full article
Visa Joins Mastercard in Pornhub review following abuse claims
The card brands are reviewing ties to MindGeek after a New York Times column accused the parent of the Pornhub.com website of distributing videos depicting child abuse and nonconsensual violence. ... Read full article
Citi sees quick results from True Name cards for trans, nonbinary consumers
The response exceeded expectations, with more than 1,600 Citi customers requesting a name-change on their cards within the first few weeks of the program. ... Read full article
An attempt to make point-of-sale payment devices obsolete
MagicCube’s i-Accept is a hardware-free option for accepting card and electronic payments that could appeal to cost-conscious small businesses and open up a new market for banks that provide them payments services. ... Read full article
Citi to offer true name card for transgender customers
Citigroup is now the third, and largest, U.S. financial institution to offer the Mastercard True Name feature, which lets customers use their preferred name, rather than their legal name, on credit and debit cards. The cards are targeted specifically for ... Read full article
Why Visa and Mastercard are suddenly keen on installment lending
The card networks, along with PayPal and Citi, are responding to competition from the likes of Affirm, Afterpay and other "buy now, pay later" lenders. Should traditional credit card lenders be worried? ... Read full article
Chase launches its first Mastercard-branded consumer credit card in 5 years
Visa and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are in the middle of a 10-year merchant services agreement that gives Chase merchants certain advantages with the expected goal of favoring Visa card volume. But it’s not an exclusive arrangement. ... Read full article
Ally expanding into retail point-of-sale lending
The company will offer retail installment loans up to $40,000 through a partnership with Mastercard's Vyze unit. ... Read full article
What Mastercard's crypto plans signal for the future of digital payments
Major payment companies have long looked on at cryptocurrencies as too risky to touch, but too tempting to ignore. Mastercard's latest move indicates that the card brands are ready to make a firm pitch for crypto spending. ... Read full article
