Norges Bank Investment Management owns 1.3% of Mastercard valued at over $6 billion, confirming a significant portfolio position.

Apple Pay and Apple Card partnership drove tokenization adoption, now at 1 billion tokenized transactions per month; Apple could build its own payment rails but prefers seamless u…

Amazon's one-click experience demands frictionless security; Mastercard invests in background biometric authentication to eliminate passwords by 2030, ensuring its network remains…

Mastercard targets passwordless biometric authentication by 2030, leveraging tokenization and network effects to fend off big tech competition while expanding into value-added ser…

BNPL players like Affirm and Klarna identified a real consumer need for transaction-tied lending, but Mastercard can scale the capability globally through its existing network and…

Mastercard committed $200 million to Africa's largest telecom MTN to spin off a mobile-based financial services business, targeting payments, savings, remittances and small busine…

Mastercard invested $200 million in MTN, Africa's largest telecommunications provider, to spin off a mobile-based financial services business serving consumers across the continen…

Mastercard is partnering with Africa's largest telco to spin off a mobile-based financial services business, targeting digital inclusion across the continent where leapfrogging to…

Mastercard announced a planned acquisition of Recorded Future, the world's number one threat intelligence company, to accelerate cybersecurity capabilities against AI-enabled frau…

Mastercard is investing $8B in cybersecurity, acquiring threat intelligence leader Recorded Future, digitizing clunky commercial payments, and using generative AI to predict fraud…

Mastercard's position as a global payment network gives it more transaction data than any competitor, enabling AI-driven fraud prediction and a growing suite of payment-related se…