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What’s possible when you partner with Mastercard

Mastercard is working with businesses and governments around the world to improve the lives of the billions of people we serve.

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CASE STUDIES

Next Generation Solutions for our Partners

NatWest protects their customers from financial fraud with Mastercard’s Consumer Fraud Risk solution. Using large scale payments data to detect and predict fraudulent activity, the AI-driven solution reacts in real time to stop funds from leaving accounts. As scams become more pervasive, Mastercard’s Consumer Fraud Risk solution means NatWest customers can transfer money with peace of mind.

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Smartfreeze is taking its smart food container business to the next level with Mastercard’s Strive UK programme.

Amanda Gordon, Smartfreeze entrepreneur, utilised Strive UK to access a 12-week-long mentorship, which encouraged her to focus on her business plan and long-term goals when setting up her business. Now, Smartfreeze is embarking on its next stage of business growth – raising finance and expanding overseas.

Mastercard's Strive UK programme empowers small business owners across the UK, by connecting them with the right digital technology and skills tailored to their business.

Strive UK Smartfreeze
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By being part of Mastercard’s Priceless Planet Coalition, ekko empowers shoppers to make positive decisions for the planet. Mastercard’s reforestation programme help customers restore forests through purchase decisions.

Additionally, through Mastercard’s Carbon Calculator’s personalised tracker, ekko cardholders can see an estimated carbon footprint of each their purchases. So everyday shopping choices can make a lasting difference to the planet.

ekko Smartfreeze Priceless Planet Coalition
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Mastercard’s switching, settlement and resilience infrastructure in the UK, powered by Vocalink, a Mastercard company, enables over 30,000 individual UK Post Office counters — the largest branch network in Europe — to provide a range of basic banking transactions. It settles more than £430 million transactions daily.

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Mastercard's Strive UK Programme helps small business owners across the UK access mentors, training, funding, and digital tools. It enables entrepreneurs like Thalia to supercharge her digital marketing skills and transform online sales for her business, Sparkle Lighting. Owners can tap in and out of Strive UK resources whenever they please, ensuring the path to success is seamless.

Strive UK Programme Sparkle
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Mastercard Dynamic Yield helps deliver personalised, optimised, and synchronised experiences across all digital customer touchpoints. It enables brands to transform simple customer interactions into hyper-tailored experiences, iterate faster, and algorithmically match content, products, and offers to each individual to accelerate long-term business value.

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Mastercard Send™ is a near real-time payments platform that enables our customers to support people and organisations sending and receiving money around the world. Leveraging Mastercard Send, humanitarian organisations can disburse funds quickly and conveniently to eligible individuals in a way that’s easily available to spend. Near real-time funds availability to their own debit or prepaid card account provides recipients with speed and choice to access essential funds at a time when they need them most.

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With Test & Learn, Walgreens was able to use advanced predictive software to determine which selection of health and wellness products best meets their customers’ needs. As a result, shoppers were able to find what they wanted on the shelf, due to better assortment.

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All the ways we drive business

All the ways we drive business