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How Citi made it easy for transgender customers to change the name on their credit cards

Citi—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—launched a big campaign to showcase its initiative to make it easy for transgender people to change the name on their credit card.

How Citi made it easy for transgender customers to change the name on their credit cards

Citi is letting trans and nonbinary customers use their preferred names on credit cards

Citi is the first major bank to let trans and nonbinary people use their preferred first names on their bank-issued credit cards.

Citi is letting trans and nonbinary customers use their preferred names on credit cards

Mastercard will spend $500 million to expand financial access in Black communities

Through helping to expand and digitize financial services, Mastercard hopes to tackle historic financial exclusion that the pandemic has exacerbated.

Mastercard will spend $500 million to expand financial access in Black communities

Harvard researchers discover a surprising reason why Zoom and Skype won’t kill business travel

Study authors attribute this link to the movement of what they dub “knowhow.”

Harvard researchers discover a surprising reason why Zoom and Skype won’t kill business travel

Shamina Singh on queer women in tech: ‘We move fast … and get a lot done’

No. 9 on Fast Company’s Queer 50 list, Singh is working on various initiatives at Mastercard, including the company’s recent investment to identify and scale treatments for COVID-19.

Shamina Singh on queer women in tech: ‘We move fast … and get a lot done’

Half of these 50 top companies got an ‘F’ in gender pay equity

Among the failing companies are massive employers like Walmart, Goldman Sachs, McDonald’s, Verizon, and MetLife.

Half of these 50 top companies got an ‘F’ in gender pay equity

Big banks vs. Big Tech: Citi’s president on the existential threat facing finance

Financial services companies are at risk of becoming “dumb pipes” for innovative tech platforms.

Big banks vs. Big Tech: Citi’s president on the existential threat facing finance

Innovation By Design

The best data design of 2019

See the honorees of the 2019 Innovation by Design Awards in the Data Design category.

The best data design of 2019

Mastercard’s ‘true name’ card aims to revolutionize banking for trans and nonbinary communities

The True Name program could revolutionize banking for trans and nonbinary communities.

Mastercard’s ‘true name’ card aims to revolutionize banking for trans and nonbinary communities

Oh good, here’s another reason to hate credit cards

It has nothing to do with debt.

Oh good, here’s another reason to hate credit cards

This credit card won’t let you buy anything else after you’ve hit your annual carbon limit

The Do Black card is a radical solution to expanding carbon footprints.

This credit card won’t let you buy anything else after you’ve hit your annual carbon limit

It just got cheaper for tourists in Europe to use their Visa and Mastercard

You can thank the European Union for that.

It just got cheaper for tourists in Europe to use their Visa and Mastercard

Mastercard hit with $648 million fine by EU for artificially raising the costs of card payments

Mastercard’s practices would not allow merchants to shop around other European banks for better card transaction fees.

Mastercard hit with $648 million fine by EU for artificially raising the costs of card payments

Mastercard is looking into anonymous crypto-transactions

A new patent application hints at the payment giant’s blockchain ambitions.

Mastercard is looking into anonymous crypto-transactions

Mastercard and Microsoft have a frightening plan to create universal “digital identities”

The two companies are creating “digital identity” solutions that will definitely alarm privacy activists.

Mastercard and Microsoft have a frightening plan to create universal “digital identities”

Why Mastercard signed on as League of Legends’ first-ever global sponsor

Mastercard CMO Raja Rajamannar says traditional advertising is dead and eSports are now part of the brand’s marketing strategy around experiences.

Why Mastercard signed on as League of Legends’ first-ever global sponsor

Google has been secretly tracking your offline purchases with help from Mastercard

Google wants to know what you buy and Mastercard is here to help.

Google has been secretly tracking your offline purchases with help from Mastercard

Bitcoin price tops $8,000–here’s why it’s probably surging

The possibility of a bitcoin-based ETF may be fueling this price bump.

Bitcoin price tops $8,000–here’s why it’s probably surging

Bitcoin’s price spiked this week, and this time it didn’t immediately crash

Bitcoin hit its highest price in months earlier this week, and it has yet to go back down.

Bitcoin’s price spiked this week, and this time it didn’t immediately crash

Signing off: 4 reasons Mastercard says it’s killing your signature next week

Let’s take a moment of silence to mourn the death of credit card signatures—or maybe let’s not, because everyone knows those illegible lines you scribble on paper receipts are functionally useless. Mastercard realizes it, too, which is why the company announced back in October that it would stop requiring retailers to capture signatures at checkouts … Continue reading “Signing off: 4 reasons Mastercard says it’s killing your signature next week”

Signing off: 4 reasons Mastercard says it’s killing your signature next week

Impact

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News

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Co.Design

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Work Life

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How to raise venture capital in a hybrid world

The office has changed forever. How you onboard employees must also change