Earnings summaries and quarterly performance for Mastercard.
Executive leadership at Mastercard.
Michael Miebach
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ari Sarker
President, Asia Pacific
Craig Vosburg
Chief Services Officer
Edward McLaughlin
President & Chief Technology Officer, Mastercard Technology
George Maddaloni
Chief Technology Officer, Operations
Greg Ulrich
Chief AI and Data Officer
Jorn Lambert
Chief Product Officer
Karen Griffin
Chief Risk Officer
Ken Moore
Chief Innovation Officer
Linda Kirkpatrick
President, Americas
Ling Hai
President, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa
Mark Barnett
President, Europe
Michael Lashlee
Chief Security Officer
Raj Seshadri
Chief Commercial Payments Officer
Raja Rajamannar
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Richard Verma
Chief Administrative Officer
Sachin Mehra
Chief Financial Officer
Susan Muigai
Chief People Officer
Tiffany Hall
General Counsel
Timothy Murphy
Vice Chair
Board of directors at Mastercard.
Candido Bracher
Director
Choon Phong Goh
Director
Gabrielle Sulzberger
Director
Harit Talwar
Director
Julius Genachowski
Director
Lance Uggla
Director
Merit E. Janow
Board Chair
Oki Matsumoto
Director
Richard K. Davis
Director
Rima Qureshi
Director
Youngme Moon
Director
Research analysts who have asked questions during Mastercard earnings calls.
Darrin Peller
Wolfe Research, LLC
6 questions for MA
Harshita Rawat
AllianceBernstein
6 questions for MA
Sanjay Sakhrani
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW)
6 questions for MA
Tien-tsin Huang
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
6 questions for MA
Timothy Chiodo
UBS Group AG
5 questions for MA
Bryan Keane
Deutsche Bank
4 questions for MA
Trevor Williams
Jefferies LLC
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Andrew Schmidt
Citigroup Inc.
3 questions for MA
Bryan Bergin
TD Cowen
3 questions for MA
Craig Maurer
FT Partners
3 questions for MA
James Faucette
Morgan Stanley
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Rayna Kumar
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
3 questions for MA
David Koning
Robert W. Baird & Co.
2 questions for MA
Fahed Kunwar
Redburn Atlantic
2 questions for MA
Jason Kupferberg
Bank of America
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Ramsey El-Assal
Barclays
2 questions for MA
William Nance
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
2 questions for MA
Adam Frisch
Evercore ISI
1 question for MA
Andrew Jeffrey
William Blair & Company
1 question for MA
James Friedman
Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP
1 question for MA
Ken Suchoski
Autonomous Research
1 question for MA
Nate Svensson
Deutsche Bank
1 question for MA
Paul Golding
Macquarie Capital
1 question for MA
Will Nance
Goldman Sachs
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Recent press releases and 8-K filings for MA.
- Mastercard’s acceptance network in Africa grew by 45% in 2025, facilitating broader participation in the continent’s digital economy.
- The digital payments market in Africa is projected to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030, underscoring significant growth potential.
- Expansion included opening new offices in Ghana, Uganda, and Mauritius and boosting local headcount by 20% to enhance market support.
- Investments in digital infrastructure—such as tokenization upgrades, digital identity solutions, and virtual cards—aim to strengthen payment security and convenience.
- Conductor added 50+ enterprise AI customers in Q3, achieved 125%+ net revenue retention, and saw 132% YoY growth in monthly active usage.
- Key strategic milestones include expanding its partnership with Acquia, earning ISO 42001 AI Management Systems certification, and being named a top 50 token consumer by OpenAI.
- In Q3, customers used the platform to track 1.5 million AI prompts and optimize 20,000+ pieces of content, while Conductor released 40+ product updates such as Knowledge Sources in Writing Assistant.
- Mastercard’s Board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.87 per share, a 14% increase over the prior $0.76, payable February 9, 2026 to holders of record as of January 9, 2026.
- The Board authorized a new $14 billion share repurchase program to commence after completing the prior $12 billion plan; as of December 5, 2025, $4.2 billion remained under the existing authorization.
- Zebec has integrated Privy’s embedded wallet infrastructure into its upcoming SuperApp, linking its stablecoin payroll rails with Stripe’s payments network for global payouts.
- The upgrade enables secure onboarding via email, SMS, passkeys or existing auth providers, and allows funds to be held, converted, streamed or spent instantly using Mastercard-powered cards.
- Privy, acquired by Stripe in 2025, already powers over 100 million accounts and processes billions in monthly volume, enhancing Zebec’s compliance and interoperability.
- The Zebec SuperApp—currently in testing—will automate streaming payroll, contractor/vendor disbursements, and multi-country cross-border payouts.
- ALT5 launched its $WLFI Treasury strategy, holding 7.28 billion $WLFI tokens valued at $1.1 billion, and aims to optimize token holdings per share while integrating the $USD1 stablecoin across its platforms.
- Its Fintech & Payments segment—anchored by ALT5 Pay and ALT5 Prime—has processed over $5 billion in cryptocurrency transactions, and in November 2025 joined a Mastercard crypto card JV with AlphaTON Capital and PagoPay supporting TON and $USD1 payments.
- The legacy Biotech arm, Alyea Therapeutics, is advancing non-addictive pain treatment patents into the next stage of clinical trials as ALT5 evaluates strategic options to maximize value.
- Alipay+ QR code transactions in South Korea grew 18% year-on-year, with total payment volume up 16% in Jan–Nov 2025 vs Jan–Nov 2024.
- Transportation, beauty clinic and F&B categories led the surge: transport transactions +120% (TPV +23%), beauty clinic +90% (TPV +123%) and F&B +47% (TPV +54%) year-on-year.
- As of November 2025, Alipay+ connected 21 international wallets to over 2 million merchants in South Korea, enhancing tourists’ payment options.
- In September 2025, Alipay+ integrated Japan’s PayPay, further broadening payment access for Japanese visitors.
- Mastercard’s services segment comprises ~40% of revenue, is growing in the high teens, and contributes ~700 bps to overall revenue growth.
- The company reports healthy consumer spending into the holiday season, with Black Friday up ~4% YoY, and anticipates a 3 ppt net revenue tailwind from FX and mix in Q4.
- The services strategy leverages payment transaction data across consumer, commercial, and value-added offerings to fuel a virtuous cycle of increased volumes and attachments.
- Growth levers include network-based attachments (60% of services revenue), SaaS platforms, and B2B channel partnerships, targeting a $165 billion serviceable market with low single-digit penetration.
- Recent product innovations include on-demand decisioning, Mastercard Threat Intelligence, Merchant Cloud, and an upcoming underwriting analytics suite.
- Mastercard’s value-added services segment represents nearly 40% of revenue, growing in the high-teens and contributing roughly 700 basis points to overall revenue growth.
- Mastercard sees healthy consumer spending, with Black Friday up about 4% YOY, and now expects a ~3 pp net revenue tailwind in Q4 from FX and mix, below prior views.
- The company’s virtuous cycle links payments and services: transaction data fuels analytics for fraud, personalization and identity solutions, which in turn drive higher payment volumes and market share.
- Recent product launches include On-Demand Decisioning, Mastercard Threat Intelligence, Merchant Cloud, a new lending underwriting suite, and Commerce Media (500 m consumer opt-ins, 25 k merchants).
- Healthy consumer spending trends persist across affluent and mass segments, with Q3 and early-November data showing continued growth.
- Agent Pay launched with several U.S. issuers to enable authenticated agentic commerce; full U.S. readiness by end-2025 and global rollout in 2026.
- Migration of Capital One’s debit portfolio to Discover is underway through early 2026; revenue loss represents a small portion of Mastercard’s total and is partially offset by contractual fees in 2026.
- Mastercard reaffirmed three strategic priorities—consumer payments, commercial solutions, and value-added services—pursued via organic investment and targeted M&A.
- Acquisition of Recorded Future for $2.65 billion enhances threat intelligence offerings by combining dark-web monitoring with Mastercard data to bolster fraud prevention.
- Consumer and business spending remain healthy, with Mastercard reporting continued growth through Q3, October and early November across both affluent and mass segments.
- Mastercard is leveraging stablecoins via on-ramp/off-ramp solutions, driving 25% YoY growth in on-ramp volumes YTD in Q3 and supporting co-brand programs and stablecoin settlements through Mastercard Move.
- The commercial payments market represents an $80 trillion addressable opportunity ($17 trillion point-of-sale, $63 trillion invoices), with only $1 trillion POS and $2 trillion invoice payments currently carded, prompting investment in SME, T&E and virtual card solutions.
- Value-added services (VAS) now account for ~40% of revenues, with 60% network-linked, powered by deeper transaction attachments, new service builds and the Recorded Future acquisition to expand threat intelligence offerings.
Quarterly earnings call transcripts for Mastercard.
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