The Latest Breaking News from Mastercard

Payments giant Mastercard Inc (NYSE: MA) is opening up its payments network to NFTs and Web3.

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on Mastercard (NYSE:MA). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

Mass adoption of blockchain technology and digital assets will happen sooner rather than later, as per Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) VP Harold Bossé, the TechCrunch reports. "Think about the advent of the internet; no one was thinking that Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) could even be a concept — you need the internet for Amazon to work," he…

A Relative Strength Rating upgrade for Mastercard shows improving technical performance. Will it continue?

Mastercard’s “smile to pay” system, announced last week, is supposed to save time for customers at checkouts. It is being trialled in Brazil, with future pilots planned for the Middle East and Asia.

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 13.0% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 23.43%. Currently, Mastercard has a market capitalization of $339.39 billion.

Mastercard's (NYSE:MA) short percent of float has fallen 7.81% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 5.13 million shares sold short, which is 0.59% of all regular shares that are available for trading.

With the cost of living crisis deepening and horror stories of families "living" in McDonald's to save money Mastercard announced you'll soon be able to pay for your shopping by smiling

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on Mastercard (NYSE:MA). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.