How Mastercard Takes on Payments Startups

How does a global payments company view startups, the various mobile payment platforms, and blockchain? Debbie Barta, Mastercard’s senior vice president of innovation, intrapreneurship, and partnerships, takes on these questions in the latest episode of INV Unfiltered. Barta is responsible for managing Mastercard Labs’s global network of startup competitions, as well as its developer portal and APIs. In this episode, she also describes the challenges in securing customer payment data in the post-Equifax-breach world, and in the emerging Internet of Things. Barta has been at Mastercard since 2007 in a variety of capacities including fraud management and startup engagement, and has degrees from Washington University, Webster University, and Stanford.