What we cover

Four beats: Payments Infrastructure, AI That Ships, Commerce Decoded, Regulatory and Policy. Each piece is sourced from primary industry research, official company announcements, and the writer's first-hand experience as a practitioner inside a global payments network.

What we publish

Editorial independence

The writer is a Product Development Manager at Mastercard. Major Matters is operated independently and the views expressed do not represent those of Mastercard. We do not take sponsorship money, we do not accept affiliate placements in editorial copy, and we say so when a tool we cover has a commercial relationship with us.

Charlie Major is a Product Development Manager at Mastercard. The views and opinions expressed in Major Matters are his own and do not represent those of Mastercard.