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MasterCard, Rogers Communications in strategic alliance

Friday 8 November 2013 10:09 CET | News

MasterCard has inked a multi-year strategic agreement with Canadian communications and media company Rogers Communications to support the Rogers Prepaid MasterCard available inside the newly launched Rogers suretap wallet operating on MasterCards payment network.

suretap wallet is set to be available on select NFC-enabled smartphones and is set to offer a co-branded virtual Rogers Prepaid MasterCard and gift cards from select national retailers.

Customers who download the suretap Wallet are set to have the ability to add a co-branded virtual Rogers Prepaid MasterCard that can be loaded with funds to use at their favourite retailers across Canada.

Moreover, customers are set to have access to a number of features within the suretap wallet including gifting of gift cards, reloading of prepaid cards, the ability to check account balances, view recent transactions and use location services to find contactless payment terminals nearby.

In recent news, MasterCard and First Data, a global provider of electronic commerce and payment processing services, have entered an agreement to launch the latter’s Pogo> mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) service in Hong Kong.

 


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