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US payment giants Visa and Mastercard are slamming the brakes on plans to forge new partnerships with crypto firms after a string of high-profile collapses shook faith in the industry, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The crypto industry saw a stunning reversal of fortunes in 2022 as bankruptcies of industry majors FTX and BlockFi rattled investors and increased regulatory scrutiny on the sector. Both Visa and Mastercard have decided to push back the launch of certain products and services related to crypto…

US payment giants Visa and Mastercard are slamming the brakes on plans to forge new partnerships with crypto firms after a string of high-profile collapses shook faith in the industry, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.The crypto industry saw a stunning reversal of fortunes in 2022 as bankruptcies of industry majors FTX and BlockFi rattled investors and increased regulatory scrutiny on the sector.Both Visa and Mastercard have decided to push back the launch of certain products and services related to crypto…

WASHINGTON—President Biden intends to nominate Ajay Banga, the former chief executive officer of Mastercard Inc., to serve as president of the World Bank, moving swiftly to fill a vacancy atop an institution the U.S. is pushing to overhaul.As the largest shareholder in the World Bank, the U.S. typically selects the leader of the institution, a post that doesn’t require Senate confirmation, though the bank’s board will need to officially appoint Mr. Banga. The…

By Prince Osuagwu The desire to tackle payment card fraudsters, has seen global payment technology company, Mastercard, link up with Network International, another leading enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa to launch Artificial Intelligence fraud-prevention solution. The solution will check the rising card payment fraud, address declines and chargebacks, to drastically reduce costs for its customers and acquirers. Payment card fraud losses are projected to hit $49 billion by 2030. A recent…

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Sachin Mehra, chief financial officer of Mastercard Inc., was named an independent director at Salesforce Inc. Photo: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg News…

Big banks are teaming up to launch a digital wallet that people can use to shop online. Wells Fargo WFC -1.29% & Co., Bank of America Corp. BAC 0.73% , JPMorgan Chase JPM 0.86% & Co. and four other banks are working on a new product that will allow shoppers to pay at merchants’ online checkout with a wallet that will be…

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered Mastercard to start providing competing payment networks with the information they need to process debit card payments. In a proposed enforcement action , the FTC said Mastercard had allegedly violated a provision of the Dodd-Frank act known as the Durbin Amendment by prohibiting merchants from routing transactions over alternative networks. The action targets “tokenization,” the that underpins mobile payment applications like Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay. When you go to…

Inflation has already peaked, but it will remain above pre-Covid levels in 2023, said David Mann, chief economist for Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa at the Mastercard Economics Institute."Inflation has seen its peak this year, but it will still be above what we had been used to pre-pandemic next year," Mann told CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia" on Friday. It'll take a few years to return to 2019 levels, he said. "We do expect that we go back down in the direction of where we were back in 2019 where we were still debating…

Americans returned to their prepandemic habits on Black Friday as they spent more time and money in stores than last year, but some data show they were also cautious with spending as inflation weighs on their pocketbooks. The boost in store traffic over Black Friday comes after a surge last year from 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic when many shoppers favored buying online. Shoppers still bought items online this year, but many browsed in stores, reveling in a holiday tradition, according to early data. Some…