Tie-up offers MPGS customers access to Vesta’s Payment Guarantee and Payment Protect solutions, resulting in higher transaction approval rates.

Mastercard has announced it is accelerating efforts to remove first–use PVC plastics from payment cards on its network by 2028.

Fintech and payments as a service provider, Change has bolstered its expansion into the New Zealand market, signing Credit Union Auckland.

The collaboration provides PXP Financial’s customers with safe, compliant and efficient cross-border payments and international transfers.

Encouraging more women into the global tech industry represents an opportunity for businesses to tap into bigger talent pools and diversified skillsets.

Optus and Mastercard have extended their strategic partnership in a bid to provide Optus customers with a simple, secure way to prove their identity. 

The partnership will provide merchants across the region with automated, real-time digital payment solutions that reduce risk and fraud.

The partnership will provide an end-to-end dispute management platform across all payment schemes for their merchant portfolio.

The partnership is designed to create new opportunities for brands to easily capture and keep consumer attention.

Mastercard's music album Priceless has been unveiled at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and features 10 songs by 10 artists worldwide.

Mastercard has launched Mastercard Gamer Xchange (MGX), allowing APAC consumers to convert their rewards points into gaming currency.

Mastercard and Australian company Openly have teamed up to provide organisations a complete view of their supply chain privacy and cyber risk posture.

GPS, the global payment technology platform catering to a variety of fintechs, has announced a new strategic partnership with Mastercard.

TradeWindow has partnered with Mastercard in a bid to increase access to trade finance and simplify cross-border payments. 

Shifts in household savings, economic growth, leisure travel recovery and consumer spending on stuff versus experiences are in focus as businesses continue to move digital.

According to new research initiated by Mastercard, with the country slowly starting to open up, NZ consumers are starting to spend less money at home on items and more on experiences.

Cirralto is leveraging the Mastercard Provenance Solution blockchain-based innovation and the Fresh Supply Co digital supply chain network, to provide Australia’s farmers with better access to trade finance.

Mastercard has announced its latest Start Path global start-up engagement program supporting digital assets, blockchain and cryptocurrency companies. 

For retailers, restaurants and other businesses large and small, being able to sell online provided a much-needed lifeline as in-person consumer spending was disrupted.

"2020 brought with it a rapid acceleration of digitisation and reinforced the importance of digital solutions – like contactless – to help meet our everyday needs."

The microsite has been launched across most of Mastercard's Asia Pacific websites with information and resources on how to digitalise and run businesses more efficiently.

Mastercard has launched its Cloud Tap on Phone payment technology, and the first live pilot of its Cloud Point of Sale acceptance technology.

"In making Ethoca Alerts available to qualifying retailers around New Zealand and Australia for no charge, Ethoca hopes to provide local businesses with a little relief as they adapt to their new way of working.”

“This is so much more than philanthropy. This is an opportunity to develop commercially-sustainable and scalable social impact with government and private sector partners - and to do it in a way that helps society-at-large thrive.”