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Payment giant Mastercard expands its partner network to help scale crypto assets and blockchain technology

Mastercard announces the expansion of its global partner network amid growing consumer demand for new payment technologies. Payment processing giant says Engage’s expanded partner network will broaden access to digital assets and blockchain as it makes it easier to bring new crypto card programs to market and enable crypto conversion capabilities to fiat currency. “Mastercard…

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Mastercard Sees Crypto More As An Asset Class Than A Payment Method

Mastercard views cryptocurrency more as an asset class than a means of payment, according to the payments giant’s chief financial officer. Mastercard’s encryption strategy “has been quite successful as long as encryption environments have existed,” he added. Mastercard CFO on Cryptocurrency as an Asset Class vs. Mastercard Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Sachin Mehra shared his…

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Visa, Mastercard and PayPal suspend operations in Russia

Three of the largest financial companies in the world, Visa, Mastercard and PayPal, have suspended their services in Russian territory. This is presented as a financial sanction imposed on Russia when the country invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The information was disclosed by each of these companies in a press release a few hours…

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Mastercard and Coinbase Partner to Make NFTs More Accessible to Everyone

Payments giant Mastercard has partnered with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to make non-fungible tokens (NFTs) more accessible to everyone. Mastercard cards can be used to make purchases on Coinbase’s upcoming NFT marketplace. Mastercard partners with Coinbase Payments giant Mastercard and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase independently announced their partnership on Tuesday. Mastercard stated that the company is “making…

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MasterCard for the first time in cooperation with Mourinho

Mastercard launched the first NFT that was created in co-operation with Mourinho football player who is its current MasterCard World Ambassador. The UK winner gets a nft containing a digital signature of the famous football legend. Mastercard’s first NFT grants MasterCard Tombola in the United Kingdom. People who meet the circumstances can be applied to…