Tag "MasterCard"
Mastercard has increased its Valentine’s Day spending in Hungary by 1.5 times over 3 years
Date: 2020-02-14 11:27:17
Valentine’s Day spending increased by 17 percent and pre-purchase purchases by more than 30 percent over the last three years, according to a study based on data from 53 countries....
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Mastercard opens European Cyber Resilience Centre
Date: 2020-02-10 12:49:48
Mastercard has announced that it is developing its first European Cyber Resilience Centre, a state-of-the-art cyber and security centre in Europe. The new centre will drive collaboration between the public...
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Together with its Mastercard partners, it will plant 100 million trees over the next five years
Date: 2020-01-27 11:07:38
The payment technology firm wants to mobilize the market sector through the establishment of the Priceless Planet Coalition to take concrete steps in environmental protection. Mastercard announces the creation of...
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Mastercard and the International Ski Association work on the sustainability of winter sports
Date: 2020-01-23 11:00:19
With the help of a payment technology firm, Kitzbühel, home to the Hahnenkamm competition, will be completely cash-free, and experts say that in the next five years, many ski paradises...
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January 15 is the application deadline for the Mastercard Infrastructure Development Program
Date: 2020-01-13 11:02:44
On November 29, 2019, Mastercard launched its Infrastructure Development Program, which aims to provide a significant boost to the domestic debit card acceptance infrastructure. The program provides financial and professional...
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3 million Hungarians on the road to spend Christmas at home
Date: 2019-12-13 11:10:48
According to the latest Mastercard research, over 3 million Hungarians will board a plane, bus or train to spend Christmas with their family. 15 percent of Hungarian respondents will come...
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Magazine: Focusing on the customer experience
Date: 2019-12-06 07:56:53
The Retailer of the Year competition has been organised again this year, courtesy of Mastercard. Offering good customer experience to shoppers is becoming increasingly important for market players. In 2019...
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Mastercard would double the number of credit card acceptance points
Date: 2019-12-02 11:10:42
Mastercard has announced a three-year infrastructure development program to double the number of credit card acceptance points in Hungary, which will cost around 2 billion HUF – the card company...
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The money sending service of Moneytou, Mastercard and Rakuten Viber has started
Date: 2019-11-26 11:15:01
From today, users can quickly and easily send money to each other using a Hungarian-developed service available within the Viber application. The service, based on Mastercard Send technology, was announced...
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Magazine: What an experience!
Date: 2019-11-25 07:41:07
Mastercard has prepared a customer experience study in connection with the Retailer of the Year 2019 award. The company wanted to find out what Hungarian retailers can do to win...
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The United States is the best for female entrepreneurs
Date: 2019-11-22 11:08:46
The United States slightly overtook last year’s top-ranked New Zealand in Mastercard’s 2019 lineup, which ranked what is the best country for female entrepreneur in the world – origo wrote...
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Magazine: The Trade Parliament was in session (Part 1)
Date: 2019-11-11 07:29:32
This year our magazine organised the Business Days conference in Tapolca under the name Trade Parliament, between 16 and 20 September. A record-breaking 750 FMCG experts and decision-makers came to learn...
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Mastercard’s consulting business brings its regional headquarters to Budapest
Date: 2019-10-22 11:10:43
Mastercard’s strategic consulting business, Mastercard Advisors, will bring one of its European headquarters to Budapest, and plans to increase the number of consultancy teams that have already begun recruitment in...
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Mastercard’s advisory division moves to Budapest
Date: 2019-10-20 11:37:21
Mastercard strategic consultancy business line, Mastercard Advisors brings one of its European centres to Budapest. As part of this move, the company plans to increase the number of advisors to...
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Rakuten Viber and Mastercard have launched an instant money transfer service
Date: 2019-10-07 11:10:04
Viber users will be able to easily and safely send each other a small or larger amount of money a 125,000 HUF a month and a maximum of 780,000 HUF...
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Mastercard: adventure gifts gaining popularity for Christmas
Date: 2019-09-26 11:14:21
According to a Mastercard’s survey, 8 percent of the Hungarians start Christmas shopping in September, with nearly one in two adults shopping for the holidays in November. This is due,...
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Bookline became the Trader of the Year
Date: 2019-09-20 11:11:35
This year, Bookline won the grand prize of the Trader of the Year competition, sponsored by Mastercard. In the categories, in addition to the bookstore, Budapest Park, the event venue...
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European cooperation for cashless payment
Date: 2019-09-16 18:39:56
Mastercard and mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solutions company SumUp intend to increase the number of points where bank card payment is possible in Europe in the next 5 years. Ferenc...
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Mobile payment is ahead of a breakthrough in Hungary
Date: 2019-09-16 12:17:30
About five years ago Apple Pay and Android Pay broke new ground in contactless mobile payment, especially in Western Europe. However, it is still early days in Hungary in this...
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Magazine: Simple mechanisms, useful prizes
Date: 2019-09-11 07:10:31
As part of the ‘Most successful promotion of the year’ competition, Kantar-Hoffmann and Trade magazin do a consumer survey every year, getting 32 direct consumer feedbacks on the entries and...
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Strong customer authentication’s start won’t be trouble-free
Date: 2019-08-20 14:44:34
The date is approaching fast: on 14 September strong customer authentication (SCA) rules will enter into force in Hungary. It can already be seen that the system’s launch won’t be...
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Shoppers want the personal contact
Date: 2019-08-09 07:56:49
In May JLL published a study about the future of retail. From this we learned that 65.2 percent of ‘veteran’ consumers need a professional’s help when shopping, for Baby Boomers entertainment...
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Mastercard buys an instant payment company
Date: 2019-08-07 11:03:11
Mastercard acquires Nets, a company active in the immediate payment system market, for close to 3 billion euros – portfolio.hu wrote after Bloomberg. Mastercard acquires the Danish company Nets for...
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Focus on customer experience: the most innovative traders in the Hungarian market were rewarded
Date: 2019-08-06 13:30:28
With the support of Mastercard, this year’s Merchant of the Year competition was launched to reward innovative commercial solutions that provide the best customer experience. The organizers are expecting the...
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Magazine: Ecommerce Summit 2019: Online shopping is the future
Date: 2019-07-30 07:01:26
Ecommerce Hungary has organised its annual two-day conference, which is now called Hungarian Ecommerce Summit, in Visegrád for the 16th time. Another new idea from the organisers was inviting experts...
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Gauder Milán leads Mastercard’s entire European product development and innovation department
Date: 2019-07-25 11:02:20
Gauder Milán has been appointed as the Head of Product Development and Innovation at Mastercard Europe. The remarkable Hungarian professional with a remarkable international career is now responsible for the...
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Many people are paying this way at Lake Balaton and save a lot
Date: 2019-07-22 10:43:59
According to the latest Mastercard data, the number of card payment transactions on ships and ticket offices at Balaton has continued to increase – penzcentrum.hu wrote. Not only do cardholders...
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Credit card users spend an average of 52 thousand forints a month
Date: 2019-07-15 11:13:44
Debit card users spend an average of 32 thousand forints per month and credit card users spend 52 thousand forints – origo wrote, after K&H Bank. Domestic payment card purchases...
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Magazine: Technology brings major transformation to the Hungarian financial services market
Date: 2019-07-09 07:38:50
At the end of April more than 400 experts gathered at the FinTechShow conference, where Hungary’s fintech strategy and the fintech programme of the Central Bank of Hungary (MNB) were...
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Two thirds of Hungarians are looking forward to new innovations in banking services
Date: 2019-06-24 21:13:50
Mastercard commissioned TNS Kantar with conducting an 11-market survey on Digital Banking, which revealed that 6 from 7 people use a digital banking service at least once a month, and...
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