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Mastercard Commits $500M To Boost Black Communities, Businesses

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Mastercard said it will invest $500 million in Black communities across the U.S. The new initiative will include “concentrated investments that will focus on providing Black-owned businesses and Black people access to affordable financial tools and capital,” Mastercard said in a news release. We can and must do better.

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SoLo Adds Mastercard Integration To P2P Lending Platform

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SoLo Funds announced it has added a Mastercard integration so users can link their debit accounts to the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform. This integration brings us a step closer to our goal of transforming the lending sector by providing timely access to small loans through everyday mobile users.”.

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Mastercard And Unilever’s Micro-Lending Has Macro Results For Kenyan SMBs

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Mastercard saw that creating access to formal credit could mitigate the problems on both sides, and the company has spent the last year working alongside Unilever to learn as much as possible about what it would take to provide such access. A year ago, when Mastercard embarked on this journey, that was The Question.

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Wells Fargo Taps Former Mastercard Exec To Run Merchant Services

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Her most recent position was as an executive vice president at Mastercard , where she helped to drive growth for the company in the areas of B2B, government and payment segments. The company revealed that David Kowach has been named head of community banking, while Jim Hays has come on board as president and head of Wells Fargo Advisors.

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Mastercard Develops Micro SMB Financing Solution With Unilever

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Mastercard is expanding its existing partnership with Unilever to bridge micro-small business owners in Africa with access to financing. Micro- and small businesses are the economic backbone of communities around the world,” said Mastercard President and CEO Ajay Banga in a statement.

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Fnality launches DLT wholesale payment system with UBS | Deutsche Bank plans Euro stablecoin | Mastercard: Elevating banking with 10 GenAI use cases

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This week’s must-know stories in the FinTech, AI and Digital Asset space: Fnality launches DLT wholesale payment system in UK with UBS & Lloyds Deutsche Bank’s DWS plans Euro stablecoin Mastercard: Elevating banking with 10 GenAI use cases Plus, 9 more exclusive stories to help you stay ahead of the curve!

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Visa snaps up banking platform Pismo for $1B | Mastercard launches network for tokenized bank deposits | GenAI pushes Nvidia market cap past $1T

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