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US fashion retail sales up 4.4 percent during holiday season

Fashion retailers in the US experienced a year-on-year increase in sales during the crucial holiday season, new data reveals. Apparel sales were up 4.4 percent year-on-year in the period between November 1 and December 24, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment and is...

Business

Gap is launching a new credit card to booster loyalty, but who wants it?

Gap Inc is launching a new credit card partnership with Mastercard. It's a chic navy card, minimalist with degradé colour and a simple Gap logo. But the question is: who wants to take out a store credit card in 2022? The news comes as Gap only last year announced Barclays as its official card issuer. The fashion conglomerate, which also operates...

Business

American Express, Visa and Mastercard suspend operations in Russia

Visa, Mastercard and American Express have all suspended operations in Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. In a statement, Stephen J. Squeri, chairman and chief executive at American Express, said: “In light of Russia’s ongoing, unjustified attack on the people of Ukraine, we are suspending all operations in Russia. “As a result,...

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Mastercard pilots digital payments to garment workers

Mastercard is teaming up with global apparel companies, Marks and Spencer, Levi Strauss and Co., and VF Corporation, to pilot a scheme to pay garment workers digitally, to ensure that workers receive their wages “securely and consistently”. The new hybrid digital payment initiative, in connection with global nonprofit Business for Social...

Fashion

Rodarte debuts exclusive artist collaboration with Mastercard for Fred Segal

Designer-sister duo Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the creative directors behind Rodarte, presented an‘80s-themed capsule collection in partnership with MADE, a fashion discovery platform through IMG, and Mastercard. For the limited-edition collection, which is available exclusively at Fred Segal, fashion label worked with artist and painter Mari...

Retail

Visa & Mastercard to cut fees on payments made with foreign credit cards in Europe

The European Commission has accepted an offer by Visa and Mastercard to significantly reduce the fee European retailers need to pay to the cardholder’s bank when a tourist or online shopper makes a payment using a credit card issued outside the bloc. Known as Inter-regional interchange fees or inter-regional MIFs, these fees will now be reduced...

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Mastercard to launch 'selfie pay' in the UK

As consumers continue to embrace 'next generation of payments' whilst shopping online, Mastercard aims to launch its new facial recognition payment services, also known as 'selfie pay' in the UK. "As more choices are made available to them, the conversation has evolved and consumers seem to be fully embracing the next generation of payments"...

Apparel

Mastercard survey finds metros splurging on apparels online

A recent study by MasterCard reveals apparels is in the top category across all metros in the country. And people in Chennai spend the most on clothes and jewellery, followed closely by Bangalore. MasterCard, said to be the world's second-largest payment and technology firm, opened an analysis centre in Delhi last year. The company is looking at...

Apparel

More Indian men shop online than women: MasterCard Survey

A recent research by MasterCard reveals that fewer people used the online medium to shop in 2012. A survey of the online shopping habits of Indians finds that compared to 44.8 percent who used credit cards for such shopping in 2010, only 34.2 percent chose to do so in 2012. But this is better than the previous year when it was much lower at 28.8...