Money20/20: MasterCard to Launch Tokenization Initiatives

Money20/20: MasterCard to Launch Tokenization Initiatives

On Tuesday afternoon at the Money 20/20 conference in Copenhagen, a panel of industry leaders discussed the ongoing trends towards the tokenization of financial data and their respective involvements in these endeavors. Tokenization is growing in popularity among payment processors and their clients alike, and there are a number of overlapping ideas with how the Blockchain obfuscates sensitive information while still making information accessible for applicable parties or use cases. MasterCard in particular wants to capitalize on this trend, stating that they would be integrating tokens....


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