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Mastercard Biometrics News
Trust Stamp Denmark chosen for Mastercard’s impact tech partnership program
Identity company Trust Stamp has been chosen as one of the five companies to join the Mastercard Lighthouse MASSIV 2025…
| Mar 11, 2025 | Mastercard well positioned in soaring virtual card marketAmong firms with the reach and resources to push payments wholly into the digital space, Mastercard ranks high on the… |
| Feb 28, 2025 | US banks must prepare for FIFA World Cup fraud surge: EntersektAhead of an anticipated fraud surge during the biggest sporting event of 2026 in North America, Entersekt warns U.S. banks… |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Mastercard and Feedzai partner in fraud preventionMastercard is partnering with Feedzai to make it easier for more banks to identify and stop scams. Scams cost more… |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Idex biometric payment cards advance with 10K Visa order, Kona’s Mastercard approvalIdex Biometrics has received a production order of 10,000 units for its biometric payment card solution. The company which placed… |
| Feb 4, 2025 | Biometrics, tokenization to replace credit card numbers by 2030Mastercard intends to do away with the 16-digit number on their credit and debit cards and replace them with on-device… |
| Feb 4, 2025 | Rising fraud prompts new partnerships for Alloy, Mastercard, SumsubThere is good news and bad news on the fraud front. The good news is that Jimmy next door is… |
| Dec 17, 2024 | In 2025, payments tech will bring to thee, a wallet and a passkey‘Tis the season for trend forecasting. As 2024 draws to a close, payments firms are lobbing out predictions for what… |
| Dec 6, 2024 | Mastercard brings Payment Passkey Service to Latin AmericaMastercard has debuted its Payment Passkey Service in Latin America, in a partnership with Brazil events platform Sympla and global… |
| Dec 2, 2024 | Ecommerce is losing money to fraud – and looking towards biometricsFraud losses continue to plague ecommerce and online payments, with Juniper releasing the latest sobering statistics on merchant losses. Behavioral… |
| Nov 26, 2024 | South Korean card manufacturers all in on Idex’ biometricsBiosmart will move on to mass production of biometric payment cards based on Idex Biometrics’ platform after Mastercard gave the… |
| Nov 14, 2024 | Mastercard says biometrics, tokenization only for online checkout by 2030Mastercard has set its sights on transforming the online shopping experience by 2030, envisioning a checkout process where passwords and… |
| Nov 12, 2024 | Mastercard brings passkeys for ecommerce payments to UAEMastercard will roll out its passkey-enabled Click to Pay ecommerce feature in the United Arab Emirates through a partnership with… |
| Nov 7, 2024 | Mastercard replacement of OTPs with passkeys and Click to Pay reaches APACMastercard is enabling faster and more convenient online transactions with its newest feature, Mastercard Click to Pay, launching in the… |
| Nov 5, 2024 | Mastercard, Orange partner to increase financial inclusion in seven African countriesA deal between Orange Middle East and Africa and Mastercard aimed at driving financial inclusion for millions of Africans across… |
| Oct 18, 2024 | Mastercard brings passkeys for payments to MENA following India launchMastercard is bringing its passkey service for digital payments to the Middle East and North Africa through a partnership with… |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Mastercard highlights the growing case for biometric authentication and payment passkeysAt the Authenticate conference, Mastercard executives Jonathan Grossar, VP, product management, and Fred Tyler, VP, emerging digital products for North… |
| Oct 14, 2024 | Mastercard launches identity, attribute verification based on payment card dataMastercard has unveiled an Identity Attribute Verification service for online interactions based on new industry specifications from EMVCo. The service… |
| Sep 26, 2024 | PayU embraces native device biometrics to meet India’s authentication mandatePayU, a digital financial services provider in India, has introduced Flash Pay, a biometric authentication solution for mobile digital payments,… |
| Sep 5, 2024 | Mastercard, Smile ID partner to scale up merchant KYC in 50+ African countriesMastercard’s Digital Merchant Onboarding Program (MDOP) has integrated Smile ID’s identity and document verification suite to facilitate merchant onboarding in… |
Mastercard Industry Insights
Knowledge and recognition: new wave biometrics
This is a guest post by Ajay Bhalla, President, Cyber & Intelligence at Mastercard. How do we know someone is…
| Is Mastercard bridging the gap from passwords to biometrics? |
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