Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies together will focus on developing platforms for e-commerce and m-commerce.
MasterCard also intends to make a minority investment in Monitise.
In recent news, financial institution US Bancorp has partnered with Monitise to provide a mobile commerce platform dubbed Peri.
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