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Mastercard’s advisory division moves to Budapest
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Read moreWalmart 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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