Mastercard
also referred to as: mastercards
includes MasterCard MasterPass, Mastercard Send, Mastercard Black Card, Mastercard Start Path
15 statements across 8 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2017 by Connie Chan · said 74 times in 25 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Alex Rampell (19), Max Levchin (7), Sanket Pathak (5), Greg Ulrich (3), Mark Casey (2), Angela Strange (2), Varun Krishna (1), Russ Fraden (1)
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2025 27 mentions in 3 episodes 9 per episode
2024 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2019 27 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
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2018 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Mastercard, oldest first
Jul 16, 2017
Chan: China Has Fewer Than 436 Million Credit Cards for 1.36B People
“Now, if I look at the number of people in the US and how many credit cards we have, there is more than one credit card for every person in the US. But then if I look at the Chinese population of 1.36 billion people, and I add up all the American Express cards,…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Evans notes Apple provides payment endpoints rather than competing with banks
“On the one hand, they look like a great partner, because they've not gone and built their own payment platform, they're not trying to compete with Visa or Master They're not trying to compete with Chase or Wells Fargo or Lloyd's or, you know, any of the retail…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Flannery: Mobile apps, not plastic cards, will power emerging market credit
“Credit cards just aren't going to spread. You know, the middle class of India is not going to have plastic credit cards. Nigerians are not going to have Visa cards or MasterCards anytime soon, because there's nowhere to swipe them, and people can't get credit …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Apr 30, 2024
Jun 20, 2024 positive
Feb 5, 2025 positive
Ulrich: Mastercard scores real-time transaction fraud in milliseconds using GenAI
“The product we have is called Decision Intelligence, and that's where in the milliseconds we have between when a transaction passes through our network from when you tap to buy something in a store, it passes through MasterCard to go to the issuer. We're provi…”
Feb 5, 2025 positive
Ulrich: Mastercard's Shopping Muse uses GenAI for online retail recommendations
“In personalization, we have something called Shopping Muse, which is basically enabling the in-store experience online. So you have a chatbot effectively where you can type in your own language and ask for recommendations. ... It's allowing you to interact lik…”
Feb 5, 2025
Ulrich: Mastercard brought seven external experts to brief its board on AI
“When we presented to our board of directors on AI in September, the way we structured is I had seven external speakers come in, right? To give different perspectives from an investor perspective. The CEO of one of the leading LLMs. We partnered with Databricks…”
Feb 5, 2025 positive
Ulrich: Mastercard uses RAG and internal databases for customer onboarding AI
“What we've done is we've created a digital assistant that uses RAG and points to all these technical databases, the Q and A's we've had over time, where we've tested and fine-tuned these models to enable customers to onboard our products easier by automating a…”
Feb 5, 2025 bearish
Ulrich: Generative AI solutions are not yet ready for direct consumer use
“There's enthusiasm, but I, it's definitely not unbridled as people are very worried about the accuracy, the hallucination, the efficacy of these, and particularly as you start pointing these to customer facing solutions, there's a very high bar on what that's …”
Feb 5, 2025 positive
Ulrich: Multimodal AI is uniquely valuable for financial invoice reconciliation
“When we think about things in financial services, big invoice reconciliation, bill pay, you'll have these things come in as PDFs, you'll have them come in as images, you'll have them come in as text in a variety of ways. As we start looking at things holistica…”
Feb 5, 2025 positive
Sep 3, 2026 neutral
Rampell: Starbucks Pay was designed to avoid per-transaction payment processing fees
“That's why Starbucks invented Starbucks Pay, because they wanted to stop having to pay. It's like these prepaid, they only have to pay one time. You chart, you put 50 dollars on your Starbucks account, well, they only have to pay Visa, MasterCard, and everybod…”