Japan’s mobile operator NTT DOCOMO and MasterCard today announced a new partnership in order to expand contactless payments options for consumers in...

MasterCard and Deutsche Telekom today announced a European partnership to enable consumers to use their mobile phones as a convenient and secure way to pay. The partnership aims to make mobile payments a reality for Deutsche Telekom’s 93 million mobile customers across Europe with first roll-out to take place in Poland later this year. Deutsche Telekom will issue the...

ZDNet reports that a hacker name as Reckz0r claimed on Twitter that he had targeted 79 banks for around three months and now has released a vast cache of 1,700 separate accounts relating to Visa and Mastercard credit card data. From the data included in the data dump: customer names, the debit or credit card type — Visa or Mastercard — along with postal addresses,...

MasterCard has announced a global initiative called the MasterCard Mobile Point-of-Sale (MPOS) Program in an urge to provide best practices to mobile point-of-sale solution providers and merchants, ensuring simple and secure transactions when consumers use their debit, credit and prepaid cards to pay merchants that use these devices. “The boom in mobile devices provides...

MasterCard has announced PayPass Wallet Services, a new global offering for banks, merchants and partners that will make it faster and easier for their...

MasterCard introduced a comprehensive roadmap focused on advancing the U.S. electronic payments system. The roadmap includes the path for migration from...

I’m doing my MasterCard payments research, until I found something interesting and feel like to share with the world. An RFID-enabled watch that offers...