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Decoded by Mastercard

Decoded by Mastercard is a short-form video series that unpacks the forces shaping the future of commerce, payments, intelligence, and trust across EEMEA. Featuring Mastercard’s experts, each episode translates complex trends and emerging insights into clear, engaging narratives connecting data-driven perspectives with real-world impact.

Innovation
Priceless Possibilities, Episode 2: De-coding Stablecoins: The Future of Digital Assets

In the latest episode of Mastercard’s Priceless Possibilities podcast, Olivia Bellingham, Senior Vice President of Mastercard Direct Services, EEMEA, joins Richard Teng, CEO of Binance, to explore how stablecoins, cryptocurrency and other digital assets are moving beyond theory into real-world application.

Innovation
Introducing Priceless Possibilities: A Podcast by Mastercard Episode 1: Getting into the mindset of a hacker

Mastercard has launched Priceless Possibilities, a new podcast series where we get candid with some of today’s most influential leaders. From Mastercard executives to innovators shaping industries like cybersecurity, crypto, retail, airlines and beyond, the podcast is all about highlighting trends transforming how we live, work and transact. Kicking things off, Mete Güney, EVP, Market Development, EEMEA, Mastercard joins a global ethical hacker Mishaal Khan to dive into the hacker mindset—exploring why trust is the new currency, how curiosity beats fear, and how an ethical hacker's perspective can actually help shape a safer digital future.

Trust
Building Ukraine’s Digital Future: 30 Years of Transformation at Scale

This year marks 30 years of Mastercard in Ukraine, reflecting three decades of partnership that helped shape the country’s digital transformation and build a modern, resilient payments ecosystem. Together with banks, merchants, fintechs, telecom operators and the public sector, Mastercard continues to support Ukraine’s digital agenda — from cashless and contactless payments to smart city solutions, emergency resilience, cyber capabilities and long-term economic recovery.

Inclusion
Built Small. Moving Strong.

Mastercard has a long-standing commitment to helping SMEs grow and thrive, from expanding access to digital payments to enabling millions of businesses to participate in the digital economy.

Inclusion
How Commercial Bank unlocked new sources of value in Qatar with Mastercard’s Pay for Value program

Mastercard’s innovative, results-driven service model enabled Commercial Bank to bring 10% of cross-border-inactive cards to life in just two months.

Press Releases

June 2026
June 23, 2026

Mastercard and PrivatBank have completed Ukraine’s first agentic transaction, through Mastercard Agent Pay. Agentic commerce – where AI-powered agents act on behalf of consumers to shop, manage subscriptions and complete everyday tasks – is poised to transform the way Ukrainians shop online.

June 22, 2026

The Government of Republic of Moldova and Mastercard, a global technology company in payments industry, have announced the launch of the Digital Country Partnership program in Moldova. The initiative was announced on the sidelines of Moldova Digital Summit in June.