Mastercard Launches Stablecoin Security Service for Payments, Starting in US
Summary
- Mastercard has launched Stablecoin Security, a security service that evaluates risks tied to stablecoin payments.
- The service tracks the source of funds and analyzes the risk of fraud, sanctions violations, and transaction context to provide financial institutions with a risk score.
- Mastercard plans to introduce the service in the US first and commercialize it globally starting in 2027, with Borderless and Keyrails joining as initial partners.
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Mastercard has launched Stablecoin Security, a service designed to assess risks in stablecoin payments before transactions are processed. The company plans to introduce it in the US first and expand it globally starting in 2027.
The Block reported on Oct. 19 that Mastercard launched the Stablecoin Security service to analyze whether stablecoin transactions could be linked to financial crime.
The service tracks the source of funds and analyzes the risk of fraud, sanctions violations and transaction context to provide financial institutions with a risk score.
Banks and other financial institutions can connect the service to their existing compliance systems through an application programming interface, or API.
Borderless and Keyrails joined as initial partners. Mastercard plans to introduce the service in the US first and commercialize it globally from 2027.
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