Mastercard is looking to integrate its payment tech into Google and Amazon voice assistants
Mastercard is looking at ways to integrate its payments system into voice assistants made by Google and Amazon, according to Vice Chairman Ann Cairns.
It would allow people to pay for items using their voice.
Recently, the company launched a way for people to pay with Masterpass for products within Facebook Messenger.
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Mastercard is looking at ways to integrate its payments system into voice assistants made by Google and Amazon to let people pay by talking to a device, a top executive from the company told CNBC on Monday.
The U.S. payments giant has a product called Masterpass that allows a user to upload credit card details and acts as an easy way to pay for things online.
Recently, the company launched a facility for people to pay with Masterpass for products within Facebook Messenger. A user would interact with a brand by messaging them on Messenger. When they buy a product, Masterpass can be used to pay.
It’s a trend Mastercard is calling “conversational commerce” and it extends to voice too. Ann Cairns, vice chairman at Mastercard, said that buying items using voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant will “become very big” in the future.
When asked whether Mastercard is looking to integrate Masterpass with these voice assistants, Cairns said, “Yes, of course.”
“We’re looking at all of these technologies and we’re thinking about how they link on the Mastercard network,” Cairns told CNBC at the Money 20/20 Europe fintech conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Monday.
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