The Latest Breaking News from Mastercard

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Mastercard (NYSE:MA) has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 12.32% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 21.14%. Currently, Mastercard has a market capitalization of $312.39 billion.

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.

The ACCC alleges Mastercard entered into agreements with more than 20 major retail businesses that hindered competition by deterring them from using eftpos.

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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…

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.