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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Global Money Platform to Power a Multi-Money World

Mastercard and BVNK launched the Mastercard Global Money Platform, combining fiat and stablecoin capabilities through a single API in the first major integration since Mastercard acquired BVNK in August 2026. The platform offers multi-currency accounts, real-time conversion, stablecoin-linked cards and payouts via Mastercard Move, with Nuvei, Marqeta, Ontop, Beem and Almond FinTech among the first integrators. Coverage is expected to expand to more than 40 currencies across 200-plus countries in 2027, with card issuing available across 130-plus countries. Strategically, the launch monetizes the BVNK acquisition and positions Mastercard in stablecoin infrastructure, though no financial contribution was disclosed.

•10d ago

Mastercard Advances Agentic Commerce With New Trust and Intelligence Services

Mastercard announced an expansion of its Agent Pay agentic payments program with new trust and intelligence services that give banks and merchants context on AI-initiated transactions. The first service, a probability score identifying AI-agent-initiated transactions, is rolling out for U.S. testing, with richer behavioral and fraud signals to follow. Mastercard is partnering with Cloudflare on privacy-preserving signal analysis and with Skyfire on Know Your Agent (KYA) identity verification to build ecosystem trust in agentic commerce.

•25d ago

Mastercard Advances Commercial Payments With AI-Powered B2B Analytics Solution

Mastercard launched Advanced B2B Analytics, an AI-powered platform giving issuers and corporates actionable insights into supplier card acceptance and working capital. Absa Group and Emirates NBD are among the first financial institutions to offer the platform to their corporate clients. The launch targets Mastercard's stated ~$80 trillion addressable B2B payments opportunity and supports its strategy of embedding data and AI into commercial payments infrastructure.

•27d ago

SoFi Becomes First National Bank to Go Live with Stablecoin Settlement across Mastercard’s Global Payments Network

Mastercard and SoFi announced that stablecoin settlement via SoFiUSD is now live across SoFi Bank's debit and credit card program — the first live stablecoin settlement from a nationally chartered bank on Mastercard's global network. SoFi is migrating its full $25 billion annualized card program volume to blockchain-based settlement, following a partnership first announced in March 2026. For Mastercard, the launch validates its stablecoin settlement strategy within existing payment rails; the companies will also explore cross-border payments, remittances and additional SoFiUSD use cases.

•1mo ago

Recorded Future Named a Leader in External Threat Intelligence by Independent Research Firm

Recorded Future, the threat intelligence company Mastercard acquired in 2024, was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026, earning the highest possible score in 12 criteria and above-average customer feedback. The platform's Intelligence Graph holds more than 200 billion nodes of threat data, and Recorded Future serves over 1,900 businesses and government organizations across 80 countries. CEO Colin Mahony said the company is expanding its work with Mastercard across cyber, fraud, and third-party risk, alongside sister unit RiskRecon, pushing external threat intelligence deeper into payments and supply chain risk decisions.

•1mo ago

Mastercard Launches Wallet Pay to Scale Digital Wallets Worldwide

Mastercard launched Wallet Pay, a global portfolio of solutions designed to make digital wallets interoperable across contactless (NFC), QR code and online payments. Twelve digital payment providers are adopting the platform, including Ant International's Alipay+ and partner wallets such as AlipayHK, Clip, GCash, KakaoPay, TNG eWallet and TrueMoney, alongside Axian, CRED, DaviPlata, Mercado Pago, MTN and TenPay Global. Mastercard says more than 3.7 billion of its credentials can connect to digital wallets spanning 200-plus countries and 150 currencies, with global wallet usage projected to top 6 billion users by 2030. For Mastercard, the launch positions its network as core infrastructure for wallet issuers, supporting card issuing, cross-border money movement and acceptance at hundreds of millions of locations — drivers of transaction growth, though the release offers no financial targets.

•1mo ago

Syria marks first international card transaction in more than 15 years with Mastercard and QNB Group

Mastercard and QNB Group have processed Syria's first international card payment in more than 15 years following the technical reconnection of the country's payments ecosystem to the global network. The transaction establishes a foundation for international card acceptance in Syria, aiming to connect consumers and businesses to the digital economy. Executives from both companies emphasized the collaboration with the Central Bank of Syria to modernize the infrastructure and support long-term economic development.

•1mo ago