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Mastercard buys an instant payment company

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Walmart Canada launches Walmart Rewards Mastercard in Quebec

Wal-Mart Canada Corp. (Walmart Canada) announced today the launch of the Walmart Rewards™ Mastercard® in Quebec – a credit card that turns everyday spending into BIG rewards. “The Walmart Rewards Mastercard gives...

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Strong customer authentication: great changes in the e-commerce market

The countdown has started: on 14 September strong customer authentication (SCA) rules enter into force in Hungary too.  This will make an impact on every player in the e-commerce market. On...

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Two thirds of Hungarians would pay with smartphone instead of bank card

At the end of May Mastercard published the results of a survey, which reveal that two thirds of Hungarians would prefer smartphone payment instead of bank cards. One quarter of respondents...

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We spend more and more on Valentine’s Day

According to Mastercard data, the proportion of spending on loved ones has increased by 3 percent in the past 3 years, and the majority (30 percent) bought Valentine’s Day gift...

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Mobile payment platforms are spreading in Europe

After the US launch four years ago, Apple Pay is now available in Germany too. Partner companies already included Deutsche Bank, HypoVereinsbank, Bunq and Boon, Comdirect, N26 and O2 banking....

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Cash-saving program to be started at fifteen schools

With the involvement of fifteen educational institutions, a cash-saving school program will start for students and parents in the semester that is just starting – the Director of Education at...

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Magazine: Winning cards

Mastercard was the sponsor of the prize game and the cooking contest. We asked marketing manager Péter Mondovics about the cooperation.   How did Mastercard end up ‘on the dinner...

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The number of Hungarian mobile wallet payments exceeded four million

The Hungarians have already paid with mobile phones more than 4 million times, with only one touch in stores – Mastercard told on Friday. The first Hungarian bank mobile wallet...

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Magazine: Cooking was a real experience at the METRO Gastro Academy

METRO’s ‘Show off your cooking skills and win an unforgettable experience with METRO’ promotion campaign took place in October, and it was followed by a cooking contest on 30 November...

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Half of the Hungarians carry out Christmas shopping via mobile phones

Shopping via mobile phones is at least as casual as the traditional way to shop in a store. In Europe, about 80 percent of the population are ordering products from...

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Magazine: Once upon a time…Business Days 2018 (Part 1)

This year we invited partners to tell and listen to fairytales at the Business Days conference in Tapolca, which was organised in cooperation with the Chain Bridge Club. Between 25...

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Mastercard: Budapest improved seven places in the most popular cities of the world rankings

Bangkok, London and Paris are the most visited cities in the world according to the Mastercard 2017 compilation, according to which Hungary imroved seven places and ranked 32th among the...

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Mastercard business cards

What kind of advantages do business cards offer in comparison with credit/debit cards? Business cards are linked to the bank accounts of enterprises (e.g. limited partnerships, limited liability companies, sole traders,...

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Electronic payment is beneficial to everyone at the Cashless Sziget Festival

Financial Awareness Government Strategy adopted by the government is linked in many points to the Sziget Festival, which is the largest music festival on the continent, Hornung Ágnes, Minister of...

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Visitor record at EFOTT

A visitor record was born this year at the 43rd EFOTT in Velence, where 115 117 people attended the festival – the organizers told MTI on Monday. The National Summit...

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Mastercard: 16 million tourists visited Hungary spending 5.5 billion euros last year

In Hungary last year, 16 million tourists spent 5.5 billion euros. About 60 percent of the amount was spent with a credit card – Mastercard told MTI on Thursday. According...

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Mastercard: mobile payment is becoming more and more popular in Hungary

Mobile payment in Hungary is becoming more and more popular: Hungarian cardholders have been using mobile phones for one-touch payments much more times than in the first five months of...

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Mastercard is preparing for the launch of open banking

Mastercard is developing new services that will facilitate open banking. With trust and security major pillars of the open banking ecosystem, Mastercard’s new services will make it easier for banks and...

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More than a quarter of Hungarians would use the new payment technology

According to a recent survey by Mastercard, one quarter of Europeans and 27 percent of Hungarians would like to pay with a smart watch, bracelet, keychain or other wearable smart...

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Mastercard appoints Hungarian regional director

From 1 January 2018 Frigyes Romvári is the regional customer relationship director of Mastercard. His main task is supporting the regional relationship between the payment technology company and OTP bank. OTP Bank...

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From next spring we can even pay with a selfie

From April 2019 Mastercard makes biometric authentication available to shoppers in Hungary too. A joint study by the University of Oxford and Mastercard has found that the majority of shoppers prefer...

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