MasterCard News

35 multinational companies have applied for 212 blockchain-related patents in China, including Microsoft and Mastercard.

A crypto company offers a prepaid card that can be used anywhere Mastercard is accepted, with a daily ATM withdrawal limit of $2,500.

Digital payment platform Uphold has announced a debit card that lets users spend converted digital assets, cash and commodities.

Coinbase is the first crypto company to become a principal partner of the payments giant. Will crypto debit cards soon become commonplace?

Simplex, a major fiat-to-crypto onramp provider servicing exchanges like Binance, will now unlock direct crypto purchases for Celsius app users.

Mastercard, Binance X, and Ripple’s Xpring joined the Blockchain Education Alliance launched by blockchain accelerator MouseBelt.

Bitcoin returns to five figures, some Coinbase users are limited to withdrawing $10 a day, and North Korean hackers get inventive.

Mastercard’s CEO Ajay Banga revealed why the company left the Libra association, while sharing his thoughts on national payment networks such as CBDCs.

Binance cryptocurrency exchange now allows users to buy crypto directly through Visa credit and debit cards that are linked to their exchange accounts.

A new prepaid card allows users to top up using cryptocurrency and instantly make fiat withdrawals and purchases at ATMs, stores and websites.

Bitcoin is the third most-used online payment method in Italy, ahead of traditional credit cards like Visa, Mastercard and American Express.

Topco Associates will use a blockchain platform for food supply chains that is based on Mastercard’s Provenance Solution.

The banking app will begin serving U.S. customers before the beginning of next year, it says.

Recent departures including PayPal and Visa does not mean Facebook’s Libra currency project is over, reassured Calibra head David Marcus.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. Senate’s action to pressure Libra participants is “very un-American.”