Tag "MasterCard"
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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Mastercard: biometric authentication can start in 2019
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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New business development and sales leader in Mastercard’s Hungarian team
Berkes Tibor has become Mastercard’s new business development and sales manager. The specialist joined the Budapest office this summer and is now responsible for the basic products of bankcards, corporate...
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New regional managers in Mastercard’s Budapest office
Recently two more Hungarian managers have been appointed regional executives at Mastercard’s Budapest office. Now three members of the team of experts, Szabolcs Kovács, István Maklári and Ádám Szőnyi are responsible...
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Hungarians support the reduction of cash
Sixty percent of the Hungarians agree that the shadow economy can be reduced in Hungary by increasing electronic payment solutions and reducing cash – portfolio.hu reported the latest Mastercard research....
Read moreE-commerce is booming all across Europe
In Europe, the quarter of Internet users buy something every week in the online space, while among the Hungarians, the ratio is 18 percent – the Masterindex European e-commerce and...
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Women entrepreneurs: Hungary in the middle field
Mostly, the environment determines how much an entrepreneur woman will be a successful. In Hungary, almost every third business is owned or managed by women, which is a good ratio...
Read moreWeekday shopping more important than before
Six months after the ban on Sunday trading was abolished, much fewer card payments are realised on the seventh day of the week than before. The latest data from Mastercard...
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Mobile Wallet and Vodafone Wallet services available no more
Telekom announced on its website that the company’s Mobile Wallet service ends as of 1 April 2017. The same message was waiting for the users of the Vodafone Wallet service...
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Weekday shopping more important than before
Six months after the ban on Sunday trading was abolished, much fewer card payments are realised on the seventh day of the week than before. The latest data from Mastercard...
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Transparent contactless payment is popular in the vending market as well
The turnover is increasing and purchase becomes transparent at locations where contactless payment is accepted. According to András Méth, head of commerce development at Mastercard, the choice of products and...
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Despite the Sunday store closure has ended, the significance of Sunday decreased in case of card users
The Sunday store closure thoroughly reorganized the consumer habits of the card users: half a year after the lifting of the ban on Sunday working far fewer people are paying...
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Masterpass use spreading rapidly
More than 200 million consumers in 18 European countries have access to the Masterpass payment service – announced Mastercard, relying on data from the end of June 2016. Masterpass stores...
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PayPal and Mastercard expand cooperation
PayPal and Mastercard are expanding their long-standing cooperation with an important new element: in the future Mastercard will be one of the PayPal payment options and Masterpass will be accessible...
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