Around the world, MasterCard stimulates economies and changes the way the world does business.
From major cities to emerging markets, we are stimulating economies and changing the way the world does business.
As consumers and businesses continue to seek ever faster, more secure and smarter methods of payment for an increasing array of transactions, MasterCard Worldwide is at the center, providing a sophisticated set of transaction processing and consulting services that enable economic connections, fuel commercial development on a global and local scale and drive business growth for our customers.
Today, MasterCard is essential to day-to-day commerce. From major cities to emerging markets, we are stimulating economies and changing the way the world does business. We are a critical link among tens of thousands of financial institutions, millions of businesses and hundreds of millions of cardholders. What’s more, we are advancing commerce through innovations that benefit everyone, everywhere.

Our Business Model Our success is built on a solid foundation—namely, our business model as a franchisor, processor and advisor.

Payment Products and Solutions The wide variety of MasterCard payment cards available—from credit and debit cards to prepaid cards—provides enormous flexibility, security, convenience and control allowing financial institutions to meet the dynamic needs of today’s cardholders.

Payment Processing MasterCard Global Technology and Operations operates the industry’s only fully integrated global payments processing platform, setting the standard for reliability, agility, flexibility and security and keeping information and currency moving around the world.
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