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  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Mastercard launches biometric ‘wave to pay’ programme

    Payments using gestures have struggled to gain widespread adoption among consumers

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Which prepaid card should I get for my brother’s carers?

    I need one to help pay for his day-to-day personal expenses

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    ExplainerRussian economy
    Russia reaps reward of domestic payment system after Visa and Mastercard withdraw

    Planning highlights risk for western powers that sanctions reorder the international payments landscape

  • Sunday, 6 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Visa, Mastercard and American Express suspend operations in Russia

    Move by payment networks worsens country’s financial isolation over Ukraine invasion

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Lex
    Mastercard: payment processors win most from return of credit card spending Premium content

    The group faces some of the lowest cost pressures among financial services companies

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    John Gapper
    Debit cards, electric cars and ghosts of technology past

    Many products outlive their usefulness, but it is strangely difficult for companies to let them go

  • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
    UK regulator fines Mastercard and four others over prepaid cards cartel

    Groups to pay more than £33m after being found to have broken competition law

  • Friday, 24 December, 2021
    Helen Thomas
    Stand by for a big year in UK class actions

    Decisions made this year have paved the way for a particular type of collective claim in 2022

  • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Mastercard bets on supply chain finance despite Greensill collapse

    US payments giant launches lending product with UK tech company Demica

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    FintechFT
    Incumbents at the gate of ‘buy now, pay later’

    Plus, pressure builds on Apple’s payments franchise and a Q&A with the co-founder of an Indian fintech modernising cash collection for small business owners

  • Thursday, 9 September, 2021
    Fintech
    Mastercard to buy CipherTrace as bet on crypto deepens

    Deal for anti-money laundering company is payment giant’s latest move into digital assets

  • Friday, 27 August, 2021
    The Top LineTom Braithwaite
    The hardcore problem of payments in porn

    Tougher rules from the likes of Mastercard are being applied unevenly

  • Tuesday, 24 August, 2021
    OnlyFans
    OnlyFans founder blames banks for ban on porn

    Tim Stokely says Bank of New York Mellon ‘flagged and rejected’ all interbank wires linked to website

  • Friday, 20 August, 2021
    News in-depthFinancial services
    How US payments groups ended up on the wrong side of India’s plans

    Strict rules on data storage trip up overseas businesses hoping to expand in a big growth market

  • Wednesday, 18 August, 2021
    Mastercard faces biggest UK class-action lawsuit

    Court gives go-ahead to £10bn claim over credit card fees on behalf of 46m consumers

  • Monday, 19 July, 2021
    FintechFT
    The winners and losers from India’s Mastercard ban Premium content

    Move will have wide-ranging implications across India’s financial and fintech system, affecting everyone from established lenders to payments startups

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    News in-depthDigital currencies
    Visa and Mastercard stick with Binance as regulatory scrutiny rises

    Some banks and smaller payments groups have severed ties with the big crypto exchange

  • Wednesday, 14 July, 2021
    Indian central bank bars Mastercard from adding new customers

    US group accused of failing to comply with data storage rules

  • Wednesday, 31 March, 2021
    Financial services
    UK regulator accuses 5 companies of operating cartel in card market

    Mastercard among the groups watchdog says took advantage of vulnerable consumers over 6 years

  • Monday, 22 March, 2021
    Technology sector
    Mastercard, SoftBank and others call on G7 to create tech group

    The ‘Data and Technology Forum’ would help co-ordinate how member states tackle issues from AI to cyber security

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    Cryptocurrencies
    Bitcoin hits record as US financial giants embrace cryptocurrency

    BNY Mellon and Mastercard unveil new services within 24 hours of each other

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    Post-Brexit penalty reveals the power of the credit card duopoly

    ‘Interchange’ fees for Britons who buy goods from the EU with Mastercard to jump sharply

  • Sunday, 13 December, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    There is a place for class action lawsuits in the UK

    Ruling on Mastercard case opens the way for other pending actions

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    Mastercard faces £14bn lawsuit after landmark UK Supreme Court ruling

    Judgment allows Britain’s biggest consumer claim on card fees to proceed

  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Wall Street’s advice to Trump: give it up Premium content

    Some big names have called on the president to welcome his successor. And he listened. Sort of

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