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Press Releases





MAY 19, 2020

Camila Cabello Joins Mastercard’s Digital Priceless Experience Collection featuring New Renditions of Her Hit Music

New digital experiences include regional ambassadors in Gastronomy, Sports and Arts throughout the Latin American and Caribbean region.

 

APRIL 30, 2020

Mastercard Study Shows Consumers in LAC Make the Move to Contactless Payments

Consumers cite simplicity, cleanliness and speed through checkout experience as contactless payments booster. Mastercard champions effort to raise limits for contactless payment transactions across Latin America & Caribbean.

 

APRIL 13, 2020

Apart, but united: a new Mastercard campaign brings consumers together while they stay apart

The #apartbutunited campaign in Latin American and the Caribbean underscores the importance of unity under extraordinary times of social distancing.

 

MARCH 30, 2020

COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator Awards $20 Million in Initial Grants to Fund Clinical Trials

Researchers at three institutions in the U.S. and U.K. receive grants to advance studies of repurposed drugs and novel antibodies in preventing COVID-19

 

MARCH 27, 2020

Mastercard champions effort to raise limits for contactless payment transactions across Latin America & Caribbean

This initiative comes in the wake of COVID-19 as health officials recommend social distancing and a growing number of merchants are encouraging consumers to pay with contactless over cash to avoid contact.

 

MARCH 10, 2020

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard Launch Initiative to Speed Development and Access to Therapies for COVID-19

COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator will coordinate R&D efforts and remove barriers to drug development and scale-up to address the epidemic.

Roberto Vila

Product, Brand & Experience Communications, Latin America & the Caribbean
Roberto.Vila@mastercard.com
+1 (305) 536-9497