In a bold move set to reshape the payment industry, Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Lusis Payments have embarked on a collaborative journey. Our shared goal? To revolutionize payment solutions by offering a comprehensive suite of Mastercard specialist services to issuers, processors, and payment technology providers—all through a single API connection. 

In today's fast-evolving digital economy, the complexities surrounding payment solutions have escalated, with challenges ranging from heightened fraud risks to the constant evolution of technology and data privacy issues. Recognizing these challenges, Mastercard Direct Services Access (DSA) provides a pivotal solution, offering a unified connection point to a spectrum of value-added services, digitally applied across the payment ecosystem. Leveraging Lusis' online transaction processing engine, TANGO, customers across diverse sectors, including retail, finance, and transportation, stand to benefit from expedited adoption and scalability of market leading payment services, a significant reduction in time-to-market, and simplified contracting and technology support.

The partnership between Mastercard and Lusis Payments underscores a shared vision of making payments faster, smoother, and more secure. Through seamless integration, customers gain swift and seamless access to Mastercard's diverse range of services, including Security, Controls, Digital Enablement, and Loyalty services. This integration eliminates the complexities associated with fragmented access to networks, enabling customers to onboard services with unparalleled ease.

Pioneering Trust and Efficiency:
"At Mastercard, our mission is to reduce integration complexity and instill trust in every interaction within the digital economy," affirmed Kaushik Gopal, Executive Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence at Mastercard. The partnership with Lusis Payments underscores this commitment, paving the way for a seamless and secure access to Mastercard solutions globally.

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​Mastercard broadens availability of its services with Lusis Payments Partnership
MARCH 24, 2023 | PURCHASE, NY
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• Mastercard Security, Controls, Digital Enablement and Loyalty services to be streamlined to customers through single API.
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• Partnership simplifies access to solutions for Lusis customers who want to onboard services with a simple integration

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Lusis Payments, a leading global provider of payments software and technology, have joined to offer a suite of Mastercard specialist services to issuers, processors, and other payment technology providers through a single API connection.
In our increasingly digital world payment providers face increasing challenges due to heightened fraud risks, fragmented access to networks and the constant evolution of technology and data privacy issues.

To address this complexity Mastercard Direct Services Access (DSA) provides a single connection point to a wide range of value-added services, applied digitally across the payment ecosystem. Through Tango, Lusis’ online transaction processing engine, DSA will benefit customers across multiple segments including retail, loyalty, finance, utilities, and transport, with:

• swift and seamless access to Mastercard’s expanding suite of Services via an API
• a more efficient way to adopt and scale market-leading payment services with reduced time to market (from months to weeks)
• simplified contracting and technology support from Lusis

The extended suite of innovative value-added Mastercard services includes Safety Net, which provides network level protection against large-scale fraud attacks; Decision Intelligence, a real-time authorization decisioning solution and Mastercard Digital Enablement Services offering access to advanced Mobile Wallet and Cryptogram payment technology.

“As the digital economy expands and the payments landscape evolves our ambition is to reduce integration complexity to instil trust in every interaction,” said Kaushik Gopal, Executive Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence at Mastercard. “This partnership underscores our commitment to making access to our suite of solutions more seamless and secure for our customers globally.”

Mastercard Direct Services Access can be applied beyond card-based payments and across all transaction types, both on and off the Mastercard network. This offers Lusis customers access to the same trusted Mastercard services that they have traditionally only seen on Mastercard processed transactions, but through the consistency of their existing payments infrastructure.

“Leading banks around the world rely on Lusis to deliver their payments strategies. Our partnership with Mastercard highlights our shared vision for making payments faster, smoother and more secure, built on strong, long-term relationships with our customers,” said Philippe Preval, CEO at Lusis. “We look forward to working together to deliver lasting value.”

Mastercard Direct Services Access and associated services are currently available to customers utilizing the Lusis Tango payments suite.

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About Lusis Payments
Lusis Payments is an innovative global software and services provider to the payments industry. The company’s proven, cloud-native technology operates in numerous hardware and operating environments. The TANGO platform, combined with Lusis’ expertise in delivering low risk projects, uniquely empowers organizations to address their traditional and future payments needs. Lusis is based in France, UK, USA, Canada and Mexico with distributors in Asia, India and South Africa.

About Mastercard (NYSE: MA)
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
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As we begin the New Year, we’d like to express our deepest gratitude to all our clients, partners and teammates for making it an exceptional year.
 
We would like to highlight four major milestones in 2022:
 

• Lusis formed a partnership with Mastercard Access which expands payment platforms for Mastercard while allowing Lusis to connect to previously unreached payment flows, both MA and non-MA processed payment flows and services. The partnership also creates additional market reach for MC and expands our North American customer base by allowing multiple schemes, networks and services. Customers benefit with simplified access to more networks, reduced time to market, costs, integration resources, and Mastercard services via API.
  

 

• Another major highlight includes a strategic investment agreement with Bank of America. This agreement provides Bank of America a minority shareholding in Lusis Payments and an appointed representative on the Lusis board. Lusis technology is playing a crucial role within Bank of America’s payments services. The TANGO suite from Lusis Payments is a leading retail payments solution for acquiring, routing, switching, authentication, authorization, and fraud prevention. “We are proud to serve Bank of America’s payments needs with our TANGO software. This latest agreement deepens our relationship and ensures that Lusis Payments remains on the forefront of global Retail payments innovation”  -Philippe Preval, CEO Lusis Payments. Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses, and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.
  

 

• 2022 saw banks giving significant attention to their “Cloud Strategy”, whether it be in the planning stages or early implementations. The question that banks need to ask themselves concerning their Cloud Strategy is what software investments are required to improve operational efficiencies, streamline the customers’ journeys, and increase competitive agility. Simply shifting the same tired, poorly integrated ‘software blobs’ into the cloud may save a few bucks, but it does very little to Transform their business. With our proven cloud-based TANGO deployments, Lusis has seen a dramatic increase in interest for our Cloud solutions that improve an organization's operational efficiencies and customer experiences. Our partnership with HPE as their chosen payments solution for the GreenLake cloud platform further indicates our expertise in the cloud space.
  

 

• Lusis continues to expand our technical resources around the globe with a new office in Mexico and the expansion of our Toronto office.  
  

As we look forward for 2023 which includes many new announcements to share, we would like to wish all of our customers, partners and staff a Happy and Prosperous New Year!!