Mastercard might use blockchain to straighten out transaction records.
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Mastercard is acquiring Minna Technologies, which specializes in letting bank and card customers manage (and cancel) subscription services.
Mastercard’s interest in this tech could help legitimize crypto in the broader scheme of traditional finance.
Mastercard’s efforts add to those of several companies looking at ways to prove real from fake.
The company’s access to a vast well of user payments data could go a long way in creating far more powerful models.
The agreement with US-based merchants is expected to reduce the credit card titans’ take by a combined $30 billion through 2030.
One study projects the continent’s digital payment ecosystem will grow 30% a year through 2025.
The mega bank intends to buy the fourth-leading credit card network in the US.
This signals that financial institutions are seeking to make blockchain safer, though it challenges the decentralized nature of the tech.
Given that it handles trillions in transactions a year, it makes sense that the credit card provider wants to beef up security protocols.
Mastercard’s blockchain scalping detector could take on Ticketmaster, one expert told Patent Drop.
Mastercard wants to take the exchange out of the crypto-to-fiat equation.
The toast of Wall Street has elevated a new generation of executives to run its investment banking and trading operations.
Mistral is among a clutch of privately held AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic that have seen valuations soar.
The Trump 2.0 era may have officially begun this week, but the much-hyped tariff-fueled trade war has not. At least, not yet.