Mastercard

Mastercard Media Contacts
25 Jun 2025
Contact information for Mastercard communication leads across our different regions. Find email and phone numbers here.

Scaling efforts to combat friendly fraud
25 Jun 2025
As businesses face a surge of first-party fraud, Mastercard is widening the availability of its First-Party Trust technology to merchants.

Mastercard and Chainlink enable on-chain crypto purchases using Mastercard's 3.5 billion cards
25 Jun 2025

OnePay and Synchrony to launch new industry-leading credit card program with Walmart; credit card to be powered by Mastercard and set to go live this fall
25 Jun 2025

Mastercard and PayPal to partner on Mastercard One Credential to supercharge choice
25 Jun 2025
Mastercard has innovated One Credential so consumers can use a single credential that delivers multiple ways to pay and tailor their payment preferences.

Deutsche Bank and Mastercard partner to Power Merchant Solutions with open banking payments
25 Jun 2025

Consumers demand more choice & control over how they check out
25 Jun 2025
Mastercard is launching Mastercard One Credential, a single digitally connected credential with multiple ways to pay.
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