MTI is a proactive payment threat intelligence solution that provides curated, actionable insights into payment ecosystem risks—helping organizations prevent fraud before it occurs.

MTI is built for fraud, risk and cybersecurity leaders at issuing and acquiring financial institutions, including fraud prevention and threat intelligence teams.

MTI detects and disrupts upstream threats like card testing and digital skimming, enabling fraud teams to act faster and help prevent downstream fraud losses.

MTI delivers card testing alerts, quantified digital skimming impact, merchant threat intelligence, ecosystem-level updates and monthly payment intelligence reports.

Yes. MTI identifies and can automatically decline fraudulent card testing attempts, reducing exposure and preventing large-scale fraud campaigns.

MTI helps fraud professionals at acquiring institutions monitor merchant portfolios for card testing and digital skimming risks, enabling proactive merchant risk management and fraud mitigation.

MTI provides fraud professionals at issuing institutions with real-time alerts and on-behalf declines for card testing, plus intelligence on ecosystem threats and compromised merchant domains.

MTI accelerates investigations, reduces fraud losses and strengthens collaboration between fraud and cybersecurity teams—moving operations from reactive to proactive.

MTI is purpose-built for payments, combining Mastercard’s unique network insights with curated intelligence and automated actions.

MTI proactively defends against payment fraud by delivering curated threat insights and early alerts, enabling issuers and acquirers to prevent attacks before they occur.

Mastercard Threat Intelligence gives cybersecurity teams timely, curated threat insights that surface emerging payment‑focused attack patterns, enabling them to harden controls and respond before adversaries gain traction. It also provides actionable intelligence across card testing, digital skimming and merchant‑level threats, helping teams proactively identify vulnerabilities, disrupt active threats and coordinate more effectively with fraud operations 

MTI bridges fraud and cybersecurity silos by sharing payment threat signals and insights, enabling integrated strategies and faster response.

Yes. MTI is designed for global scalability, supporting large issuers and acquirers.

Organizations can access MTI through Mastercard Connect or contact their Mastercard representative for demos and pricing.