Walking the talk of innovation

Innovation is at the heart of MasterCard’s nearly 50-year history. We take an innovative, value-driven approach to the solutions we create and services we offer, making transactions faster, easier, and more convenient and secure.  

One of the many ways in which we innovate is through our culture and people. We hire talented, inventive employees such as those in our Labs group. We also encourage all employees to participate in efforts that cultivate innovation in local communities such as STEM programs. In addition, we showcase innovation through products such as MasterPassTM and tokenization that powers solutions to deliver value to consumers, merchants and banks alike. And, through outreach to developers and entrepreneurs, we are helping to facilitate improvements across the payments ecosystem that will generate future innovations.

By underpinning innovation in everything we do, we are transforming the way people pay and get paid, helping businesses grow, improving the shopping experience and advancing financial inclusion around the world.

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A look inside the MasterCard DigiSec Lab

Making strides in mobile

Qkr! allows consumers to skip the lines and order food and drinks from their seats at stadiums using their iPhone or Android device.

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Wanted: innovators, dreamers and doers

We’re always looking for people with new ideas

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