On May 25th MasterCard International announced that they are going to “Unleash Payment Innovation by Launching New Open API Developer Portal. Select MasterCard Payment and Data Services Will be Released via Open API to Worldwide Software Developer Community to Create New, Innovative Payment Applications”

We are delighted to have played a major part in helping MasterCard develop this strategy for all of their software services.

We are now working with them to ensure that their implementation of this Open API and Developer Portal is delivered to the expected standards.

To see the full press release see here.

This was a big story in the Payments world and it was picked up by thousands of newspapers and blogs around the world. Examples can be seen on the New York Times web site and on the TechCrunch blog.