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Mastercard is making the settlement of real-time card payments a reality, starting in South Africa, freeing up capital for businesses and giving people more transparency and control over their money.

At Mastercard, we don’t see sustainability as a separate agenda – it’s woven into everything we do. Through initiatives like the Priceless Planet Coalition, which aims to restore 100 million trees, and our Sustainability Innovation Lab, we are fostering solutions that benefit both people and the planet.

Recently, we took a significant step toward this goal by furthering our partnership with Ukrainian Railways to adapt its ticketing app, launched together with Mastercard, to better serve people with vision impairments.

At Mastercard, we are committed to leveraging our vast global network to achieve the SDGs, and driving financial inclusion is an important part of our collective efforts.

We announced the launch of world-class technology infrastructure and the opening of new data centers in the Kingdom that will enable the processing of domestic transactions, providing a seamless and secure payments experience for our partners and consumers.

As digitization generates huge amount of data, this needs processing, contextualization, interpretation and insight generation – all in real time. This is where we at Mastercard are leveraging AI to simplify the complex, making commerce easier for consumers and merchants.