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（来源：吴说） MetaMask 与 Mastercard 合作，在美国市场正式推出支持链上奖励的支付卡。该卡由金融科技公司 Baanx 和 CompoSecure 提供技术支持，旨在让用户能够直接从其非托管钱包中使用加密货币进行日常消 费，而无需预先充值或将其转入中心化交易所。此外，新推出的金属卡版本和奖励计划将日常的转账、 交易和消费活动转化为积分，可用于解锁网络折扣、代币分配及早期访问机会。(TheBlock) ...

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) is one of the Cheap NASDAQ Stocks To Buy in 2026. On February 18, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) announced its partnership with Mastercard to make international money transfers earlier and faster. ​As part of this partnership, Ericsson’s fintech platform will be integrated with Mastercard Move to allow telecoms, banks, and fintech companies to quickly add new digital wallet features and payment services, especially for unbanked or underbanked pe ...

Mastercard Incorporated (MA), headquartered in Purchase, New York, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services. Valued at $442.4 billion by market cap, the company offers payment processing services for credit and debit cards, electronic cash, automated teller machines, and travelers checks. Companies worth $200 billion or more are generally described as “mega-cap stocks,” and MA definitely fits that description, with its market cap exceeding this threshold, reflecting ...

Group 1: Global Payments Landscape - The Trump administration's support for digital assets has led to increased regulatory clarity and institutional engagement in the US crypto market, resulting in stablecoins facilitating over $30 trillion in transaction volume by 2025, primarily reflecting trading and treasury flows rather than consumer payments [1] - US foreign policy and the use of financial sanctions have prompted discussions in the Global South regarding trade settlement diversification and partial dedollarisation [1] Group 2: European Payment Sovereignty - As of 2026, European and UK banks are increasingly concerned about geopolitical and operational risks due to reliance on US-based card networks, with 42% of total European card payments processed by Visa and Mastercard in 2025 [2] - In the UK, Visa and Mastercard dominate the market, accounting for 98% of total card payment value, prompting major banks to discuss alternative solutions following warnings from the Bank of England regarding resilience and concentration risks [3] Group 3: Market Fragmentation in Europe - In the eurozone, Visa and Mastercard processed 47% of card payment value in 2025, with 13 out of 19 countries relying on these providers for at least 96% of their card transaction values, indicating a significant dependency on foreign providers [5] - The combined market share of Visa and Mastercard in the eurozone has doubled since 2010, raising concerns about long-term dependency despite improvements in cross-border acceptance and operational standardization [5] - The UK banks are likely to continue collaborating with Visa and Mastercard for supplementary infrastructure and interoperability measures rather than creating a new national scheme, reflecting the absence of a widely adopted national mobile wallet solution [4]

CitriniResearch日前发布报告，详细分析了人工智能（AI）可能给全球经济多个领域带来的潜在风险，导致送餐、 支付和软件类股票周一大幅下跌。 DoorDash.、AmericanExpress、KKR&Co Inc.和Blackstone股价周一盘中均下跌超过8%。 文章中被点名的其他公司，包括Uber、Mastercard、Visa、CapitalOne和Apoll CitriniResearch日前发布报告，详细分析了人工智能（AI）可能给全球经济多个领域带来的潜在风险，导致送餐、 支付和软件类股票周一大幅下跌。 DoorDash.、AmericanExpress、KKR&Co Inc.和Blackstone股价周一盘中均下跌超过8%。 文章中被点名的其他公司，包括Uber、Mastercard、Visa、CapitalOne和Apollo GlobalManagement Inc.，股价也至少下 跌3%。 这篇周日发布的报告在前言中写道： "本文的唯一目的，是对一个此前相对缺乏深入探讨的情景进行建模。 希望读完之后，你能为人工智能让经济变得越来越'奇怪'所带来的潜在尾部风险做好准备。 " Ci ...

来源：搜狐科技 Citrini Research日前发布报告，详细分析了人工智能（AI）可能给全球经济多个领域带来的潜在风险， 导致送餐、支付和软件类股票周一大幅下跌。 Citrini 报告中特别提到的板块包括：食品配送（DASH -7%，UBER -4%）、支付（AXP -8%，V -5%， MA -6%）、私募信贷/替代货币（OWL -4%，AP -5%，BX -6%）、软件（NOW -4%，CRM -4%）和 IT 服务（INFY -5%）。 DoorDash.、American Express、KKR & Co Inc.和Blackstone股价周一盘中均下跌超过8%。文章中被点名 的其他公司，包括Uber、Mastercard、Visa、Capital One和Apollo Global Management Inc.，股价也至少 下跌3%。 媒体表示，这份报告阴暗的描绘，让近期本已因AI颠覆风险和地缘政治动荡而多次震荡的股市更加焦 虑。 Grizzle Investment Management的投资组合经理Thomas George表示： Citrini Research由James van G ...

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE:NET) is among the 10 Unstoppable AI Stocks to Invest In Now. Cloudflare, Inc. (NET) Enters into Strategic Partnership with Mastercard Incorporated Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE:NET) is one of the Unstoppable AI Stocks to Invest In Now. On February 17, it was announced that the company entered into a strategic partnership with Mastercard Incorporated, focusing on developing tools. These tools would help small businesses, critical infrastructure, and governments to shield themselves from th ...

Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) is one of Goldman Sachs’s top growth stock picks. On February 12, Mastercard Incorporated’s (NYSE:MA) open finance technology became the backbone of Truist Financial’s first-ever open banking platform. Truist will use Mastercard’s open finance API network to replace the risky practice of credential-sharing with tokenized, permissioned API connections. The technology acts as the secure bridge between Truist’s banking systems and third-party fintech applications, and gives c ...

In a Sunday macro note framed explicitly as a thought exercise, Citrini Research modeled a speculative scenario in which AI-driven commerce structurally undermines card network economics. Interchange in the CrosshairsThe central payments argument: AI agents optimizing consumer transactions around the clock would eventually identify the 2-3% card interchange rate as an obvious cost to eliminate. “Once agents controlled the transaction, they went looking for bigger paperclips,” wrote Citrini. In the scenario, ...