Mastercard is testing a transaction-intelligence service in the United States that estimates whether a payment was initiated by an artificial-intelligence agent, as it expands the trust framework supporting its Agent […]

PhotonPay and Mastercard complete the first live agentic payment in Hong Kong, with an AI agent booking a ride via a tokenized card within Mastercard Agent Pay.

Romania’s government signed a five-year digital partnership agreement with Mastercard Europe SA to develop a national digital identity wallet aligned with the EU Digital Identity Wallet framework. The Romanian state […]

The FIDO Alliance has launched a new standards initiative aimed at establishing trusted authentication, authorization, and payment frameworks for AI agents, marking a significant expansion of its work beyond passkeys […]

Mastercard and Google launched Verifiable Intent, an open cryptographic standard linking biometric identity to AI agent payment transactions on FIDO and EMVCo.

Hopae has appointed Sarah Clark as Chief Product Officer and General Manager for North America, a move the company says will support its efforts to accelerate product development and expand […]

Mastercard and Tencent MIDAS have announced a global collaboration to integrate Mastercard Click to Pay and tokenization technologies into Tencent MIDAS’s overseas payment solutions. The announcement positions the initiative as […]

Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with Mastercard that sets a five-year framework for cooperation on digital infrastructure, including digital identity, GovTech, and secure […]

Humanity Protocol, a proof-of-personhood (PoP) framework based on palm biometrics, has announced that it is integrating its decentralized identity solution with Mastercard’s open finance connectivity. The integration will link Humanity […]