Mastercard expands settlement capabilities to include stablecoin, intraday, holiday and weekend options

From mastercard.com

Mastercard today announced plans to expand its settlement capabilities with additional intraday, weekend and holiday card settlement, supporting both fiat currencies and on-chain card settlement using regulated stablecoins. Together, these enhancements will give issuers and acquirers greater flexibility in how they settle card-based transactions across Mastercard’s global payments network, helping improve liquidity management and expanding choice in how money moves. Mastercard’s global payments network today supports a wide range of settlement models, enabling issuers and acquirers to operate in ways that align ... (full story)