Experts say financial institutions need smart, AI-driven tools and stronger collaboration to protect the smart payments ecosystem.

Credit cards began as simple pieces of cardboard. The first "modern" credit card was used by Frank McNamara in 1950 after he ...

In a busy week for the payments giant, Mastercard has announced an extended digital identity partnership in Africa and a ...

PayOS, an agentic payments and value added services platform company, today announced the successful completion of a landmark agentic payment transaction using a Mastercard Agentic Token.

DEVELOPING: MasterCard is investigating a possible breach of cardholder account data involving a U.S.-based payment processor, the company said Friday. "As a result, we have alerted payment card ...

Using a biometric scanner on your credit card makes your transactions more secure, but it might not solve any real issues. Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a ...