Mastercard introduced Merchant Cloud, a next-generation payments platform that combines market-leading services from Mastercard along with its partners, by doing so, it is helping businesses simplify and navigate the complexities of commerce around the world, supporting their expansion into new markets and delivering exceptional experiences for end users.
This initiative enables scheme-agnostic solutions for credential tokenization, guest checkout, fraud protection, identity verification, as well as approval rate optimization. It also provides customers with a variety of gateway services, such as omnichannel retailing experiences, efficient transaction routing, and access to data insights.
It is integrated with dedicated support and easy onboarding, the platform is designed to simplify the life of every partner to easily access the services they need to grow their businesses safely and securely, in an AI enabled world.
Merchant Cloud will offer merchants with the capability to conduct agentic payments securely, integrating into Mastercard Agent Pay and implementing the latest agentic payments protocols. Merchant partners can leverage this capability to provide consumers with a seamless and trusted agentic shopping experience. It incorporates AI to streamline shopping and to help improve approval rates.
Their latest offering, Payment Optimization Platform (POP), uses Mastercard’s network intelligence and will soon use AI to provide optimal authorization messages and deliver insights that drive more approvals.
Mastercard’s Security Solutions within Merchant Cloud include enhanced cyber, identity, and AI-driven fraud monitoring tools that detect potentially fraudulent merchants. These tools assign risk scores to acquirers, payment service providers, and payment facilitators. The Transaction Risk API ingests merchant or transaction data supplied by clients and returns risk scores and actionable insights, helping payment operations teams monitor global fraud, improve detection, and refine the customer experience.
