Mastercard

Visa, Mastercard to cut fees, let retailers reject certain cards

VISA and Mastercard reached a deal with retailers to reduce some of their fees and give merchants more leeway to reject customers who use certain credit cards, including the premium ones that have bee...

Profit rose to US$3.9 billion, or US$4.34 per share, in the three months ended September 30 from US$3.3 billion, or US$3.53 per share, a year earlier.

Mastercard quarterly profit rises as transaction volumes hold strong

Net revenue rose 17% to US$8.6 billion in the quarter from a year earlier

Richard Wormald's (above) new role is effective Jan 1, 2026.

Mastercard appoints new president for Asia-Pacific

Ari Sarker will step down and move into an advisory role

The Commerce Commission estimates New Zealand businesses pay NZ$600 million a year to accept Mastercard and Visa payments.

New Zealand to ban surcharges on in-store electronic payments

Surcharges are an amount calculated as a percentage of the purchase price and are applied to transactions to cover the fees businesses pay for accepting contactless payments and credit card

Mastercard is positioning itself as the bridge between digital assets and the traditional financial system.

Stablecoin has long road to mainstream payments, Mastercard says

The pending regulatory clarity has drawn new entrants into the digital asset sector and encouraged financial institutions to consider their place in the evolving industry

Visa and Mastercard have a long history of neutralising competitive threats by absorbing them into their own networks, often in ways designed to preserve their pricing power.

Visa, Mastercard race to tame a US$253 billion crypto threat

Tech firms and crypto startups are moving in on territory long dominated by Visa and Mastercard, powered by a new type of currency, the stablecoin

Mastercard‘s business remains strong and consumer spending has been healthy, executives said, adding that the firm has not seen a significant pull-forward in spending.

Mastercard profit beats expectations on resilient consumer spending

MASTERCARD beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Thursday as customers kept up spending on its card network despite the economic uncertainty sparked by US President Donald Trump’s swe...

Mastercard also says that it is working with crypto exchange OKX to launch a new card.

Mastercard adds stablecoin settlement support for merchants

The firm already partners with numerous crypto firms including MetaMask on crypto-enabled debit cards

Mastercard welcomes the tribunal's decision to pay 200 million euros to end a high profile action over the fees it charges.

Mastercard wins UK court nod for £200 million deal to end £10 billion class action claim

MASTERCARD won a London court’s approval for the 200 million euros (S$279.44 million) agreed to pay to end a high profile class action over the fees it charges, which was initially estimated to be wor...

Mastercard has been working to differentiate itself through services it offers customers outside its global payment network, which boosted net revenue 16 per cent on a currency-neutral basis to US$7.5 billion for the three-month period. 

Mastercard earnings top estimates as firm broadens services

MASTERCARD reported earnings that beat estimates as the firm diversifies beyond its traditional payment network into anti-fraud services, data analysis and global money movement.