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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. Louis and Dayton, Ohio.

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Ohio Lottery Makes A New Bet on Mobile

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But playing and delivery methods keep changing, with Ohio of all places — no offense to the Buckeye State, home to multiple presidents and the Wright Brothers’ aerodynamic innovations — accounting for some of the latest developments. It recently allowed lotto players to use payment cards.

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Walmart’s Answer To Facebook’s Libra: The Walmart Coin

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Let’s run our own bank and our own for-profit version of the Federal Reserve for the world,” Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown noted in a set of remarks that more or less sums up most of what the head of the Libra project for Facebook, David Marcus, heard in two days on Capitol Hill. “The