{"id":620063,"date":"2026-09-10T05:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620063\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T05:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:56:10","slug":"mastercard-connects-digital-wallets-to-more-merchants-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620063\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastercard Connects Digital Wallets to More Merchants Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Get the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your Inbox<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fintechnews.sg\/tag\/Mastercard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mastercard<\/a> has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mastercard.com\/content\/mccom\/global\/en\/business\/payments\/consumer-payments\/wallet-pay.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wallet Pay<\/a> to connect digital wallets across contactless, QR and online payments.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4.3 billion people currently use digital wallets worldwide, with that figure expected to exceed 6 billion by 2030.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fintechnews.sg\/tag\/Alipay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alipay+<\/a> partner wallets including AlipayHK, Clip, GCash, KakaoPay, TNG eWallet and TrueMoney are among those using Wallet Pay.<\/p>\n<p>Other participating providers include Axian, CRED, DaviPlata, Mercado Pago, MTN and TenPay Global.<\/p>\n<p>Alipay+ connects more than 50 e-wallets and banking apps as well as over 10 national payment schemes. It will help its partners connect to Wallet Pay.<\/p>\n<p>Wallet Pay gives participating providers access to hundreds of millions of acceptance locations and digital access points worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-137012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Joyce-Bo-150x150.png\" alt=\"Joyce Bo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"  \/>Joyce Bo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs wallet ecosystems mature, the challenge is extending their reach across more merchants, use cases and borders.<\/p>\n<p>Mastercard Wallet Pay helps wallet providers expand what they can offer, from cross-border payments to card issuing, without having to build all of that connectivity themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>said Joyce Bo, Executive Vice President of Core Payments for Asia Pacific at Mastercard.<\/p>\n<p>The portfolio supports transfers between cards, wallets and bank accounts across more than 200 countries and territories in 150 currencies.<\/p>\n<p>Providers can also use it to launch credit, debit or prepaid card programmes. Merchants can accept supported card and wallet payments in stores and online.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Featured image: Edited by Fintech News Singapore, based on image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magnific.com\/premium-psd\/phone-mockup-help-hand-pos-terminal_15809765.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">user28313935<\/a> via Magnific<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your Inbox Mastercard has launched Wallet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13708,61,60,12485,202,80],"class_list":["post-620063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-alipay","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mastercard","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}