Tag "MasterCard"
Mobile payment platforms are spreading in Europe
Date: 2019-01-31 10:14:51
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
Date: 2019-01-30 11:20:35
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
Date: 2019-01-30 07:35:51
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
Date: 2018-12-14 11:18:02
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
Date: 2018-12-10 10:20:14
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
Date: 2018-11-29 11:30:31
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)
Date: 2018-11-09 07:26:25
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
Date: 2018-09-28 10:31:35
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
Date: 2018-09-05 09:12:56
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
Date: 2018-08-15 11:20:55
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
Date: 2018-07-16 10:37:36
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
Date: 2018-06-28 10:40:06
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
Date: 2018-06-20 11:30:20
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
Date: 2018-06-20 07:52:31
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
Date: 2018-03-12 21:17:56
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
Date: 2018-02-25 07:45:11
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
Date: 2018-02-25 07:32:37
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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Mastercard: biometric authentication can start in 2019
Date: 2018-01-25 11:15:53
From April 2019, Mastercard will make available biometric, such as face or fingerprint authentication for credit card purchases in many countries around the world, including Hungary – penzcentrum.hu wrote. The...
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Business Days 2017: focusing on the channels (Part 2)
Date: 2017-12-15 11:18:45
On Thursday Trade TV continued the broadcast, but before work started in the macroeconomic section, Trade magazin’s editor-in-chief Zsuzsanna Hermann and István Matus, member of Chain Bridge Club’s board of...
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Coupons on mobile
Date: 2017-12-01 16:50:39
Mastercard launched the Priceless Specials programme in June 2015. It is now also available in the form of a mobile app. The app makes it possible to check it in...
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Mobile payment is comfortable
Date: 2017-11-24 09:22:35
László Szetnics, regional head of mobile paymesnt services at Mastercard told at a presentation held for journalists that it takes 8 hours for people to realise that they have lost...
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Magazine: Retailer of the Year competition organised for the second time
Date: 2017-11-17 06:57:14
Mastercard organised the Retailer of the Year competition for the second time. There were 30 entries in 3+1 categories, which were evaluated by a jury of six independent experts. One of the...
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No cash from January
Date: 2017-10-24 22:17:04
Budapest Sportaréna and MasterCard announced in September that the arena’s modernised entry system can now manage QR codes and NFC tickets. A Budapest Aréna smartphone app will also be launched, making...
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SPAR’s commercial was awarded in Cannes
Date: 2017-10-03 11:23:30
The SPAR Magyarország won three awards in the autumn. The chain of stores received valuable prizes in three professional competitions. The Regnum Toy Story TV spot of SPAR Magyarország won...
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Generation Y would use the mobile wallet
Date: 2017-09-23 15:29:49
According to the latest research by Mastercard on the financial habits of university students (online questionnaire with 1,507 participants), members of Generation Y have close ties with the digital world...
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Biometric bank card use is getting closer
Date: 2017-09-23 15:26:40
After the first test in South Africa, Mastercard tested its biometric bank card in Bulgaria. The new technology combines chip reading with fingerprint identification. In a joint test project with UniCredit Bulbank,...
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Mastercard: 7 percent of the college students regularly pay with mobile wallets
Date: 2017-09-07 11:22:56
7 percent of college students regularly and 13 percent occasionally pay with mobile wallets., 72 percent of them positively evaluated the new technology, and 1 out of 4 students would...
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Successful programme for developing e-commerce
Date: 2017-08-30 23:30:38
The joint programme of Mastercard and BIG FISH, started in 2016, was very successful. Improving the online shopping experience was in the focus of the project. In the ‘E-commerce review’ programme 21...
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New business development and sales director for Mastercard
Date: 2017-08-30 23:30:05
Tibor Berkes has been appointed business development and sales director of Mastercard. Mr Berkes joined the Budapest office this summer, leaving the telecommunications sector behind. He used to work for Telenor for...
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