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Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) is a global participant in financial transactions processing and digital payments, and its news flow reflects this role across technology, security, economic insights and corporate actions. The company describes itself as powering economies and empowering people in more than 200 countries and territories, supporting digital payments that are secure, simple, smart and accessible.
News about Mastercard often centers on its financial performance and investor communications. The company announces quarterly and full-year financial results through earnings releases and hosts conference calls to discuss those results. It also participates in investor conferences, where senior leaders present and engage with the investment community, with live webcasts and archived replays made available through its investor channels.
Another significant stream of Mastercard news involves its analytical and economic insights. Through Mastercard SpendingPulse and the Mastercard Economics Institute, the company publishes updates on retail sales trends, holiday shopping behavior and the influence of AI on consumer experiences. These releases detail changes in in-store and online sales, category-level trends and broader patterns in consumer spending, while noting that SpendingPulse insights are not indicative of Mastercard’s own performance.
Mastercard’s news also highlights product, partnership and security developments. Announcements have covered the launch of Mastercard Threat Intelligence, which combines Mastercard’s fraud insights with threat intelligence from Recorded Future to help issuing and acquiring banks address cyber-enabled fraud, and partnerships such as its work with Fiserv on agentic commerce and Secure Card on File tokenization. Additional coverage includes strategic investments, such as Mastercard’s minority investment in Corpay’s cross-border business and the use of Mastercard Move for real-time transactions.
Corporate governance and capital management updates, including dividend declarations, share repurchase programs and legal settlements related to merchant network rules, also feature in Mastercard’s news. For investors and observers, this news page provides a centralized view of how Mastercard communicates its financial results, strategic initiatives, partnerships, security offerings and economic insights over time.
Mastercard (NYSE:MA) is co-producing and premiering Noah Kahan’s new music video for “The Great Divide” during its commercial break in the 2026 Grammy Awards® broadcast on Feb 1, 2026. The single releases Jan 30, 2026 and the album is due Apr 24, 2026.
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Mastercard (NYSE: MA) posted its fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results on its Investor Relations website and will furnish the earnings release on a Form 8-K with the SEC.
The company will host a conference call at 9:00 a.m. ET on January 29, 2026; a replay and webcast will be available for 30 days.
Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced Mastercard Agent Suite, a suite of services and customizable AI agents for enterprises to build, test, and deploy agentic AI. The offering leverages Mastercard’s payments expertise, proprietary platforms, data insights, and 4,000 global advisors, and will be available in Q2 2026. Initial use cases target banks (intelligent product discovery and personalized offers) and merchants (conversational shopping, inventory and promotion rules). Agents are described as built with privacy and responsible AI by design and will complement existing solutions such as Agent Pay and the Developers Agent Toolkit.
Mastercard cites eMarketer’s view that a third of enterprise apps will use agentic AI by 2028 and expects growing agent-supported interactions by 2030.
Mastercard (NYSE: MA) will release fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results on January 29, 2026. The company will host a conference call at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss results and will post earnings materials on investor.mastercard.com. The company will issue a news alert with a link when materials are available. Live dial-in and webcast access are provided, and a replay of the call will be available for 30 days.
Mastercard (NYSE:MA) reported preliminary Mastercard SpendingPulse data showing U.S. retail sales excluding automotive rose 3.9% year-over-year for Nov 1–Dec 21, 2025. Mastercard said e-commerce sales surged +7.4% while in-store sales grew +2.9%. Key category moves: apparel +7.8% (online apparel +8.5%, in-store apparel +7.0%), jewelry +1.6%, and restaurant spending +5.2%. Mastercard noted omnichannel shopping and AI-driven personalization as drivers of consumer behavior and retail convenience during the holiday season.
Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Fiserv (NASDAQ: FISV) announced an expanded partnership on December 22, 2025 to advance agentic commerce for merchants.
Fiserv will integrate Mastercard’s Secure Card on File as a network token requestor and adopt the Mastercard Agent Pay Acceptance Framework, combining tokenization, strong authentication, fraud prevention, and governance to enable AI agents to transact on behalf of customers. The collaboration aims to simplify merchant participation, protect customer relationships, and unlock new revenue opportunities while emphasizing security, interoperability, and programmable payments.
Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.87 per share, a 14% increase from $0.76. The dividend is payable on February 9, 2026 to holders of record as of January 9, 2026. The Board also approved a new $14 billion share repurchase program for Class A common stock, which will become effective after the completion of the company’s previously announced $12 billion program (December 2024). As of December 5, 2025, approximately $4.2 billion remained under the currently approved repurchase authorization.
Corpay (NYSE: CPAY) announced completion of Mastercard (NYSE: MA) making a $300 million minority investment in Corpay’s cross-border business at an approximately $13.0 billion enterprise valuation, representing about a 2.3% equity stake. Corpay and Mastercard also signed a commercial partnership to offer Corpay cross-border services to Mastercard’s financial institution customers and expand use of Mastercard Move for real-time transactions. Corpay expects Corporate Payments 2026 revenue to surpass $2 billion and represent over 40% of company revenues. Goldman Sachs served as Corpay’s exclusive financial advisor and Jones Day acted as legal counsel.
Mastercard (NYSE: MA) reported preliminary Mastercard SpendingPulse data for Black Friday, November 28, 2025: U.S. retail sales excluding autos rose +4.1% YoY, driven by a +10.4% jump in e-commerce and +1.7% in-store growth. Apparel led categories (+5.7% overall; online +6.1%, in-store +5.4%), while restaurants grew +4.5% and jewelry +2.75%. Regional strength included New England, Midwest, and Southeast. Mastercard highlighted rising fraud risks as online shopping expands, citing delivery and counterfeit experience rates among consumers.
Mastercard (NYSE:MA) released a regional cybersecurity survey for Latin America and the Caribbean on Nov 26, 2025 showing strong digital adoption alongside rising fraud concerns. Consumers report high usage of debit cards 89%, credit cards 84%, real-time transfers 79%, and digital wallets 74%. Trust in banks 89% and payment networks like Mastercard 82% remains high, even as 47% cite fraud and scams as their top digital-transaction frustration and 43% flag AI-driven fraud (deepfakes, voice cloning) as an emerging threat. Mastercard noted a $11 billion cybersecurity investment over five years and introduced Mastercard Threat Intelligence to detect and respond to threats at scale.