As a slew of companies from an expanding array of industries enter the P2P payments space, MasterCard today launched a P2P payments and disbursement service called MasterCard Send, a personal payments service that allows consumers to send funds domestically and internationally. According to the company, a single connection to the MasterCard Send platform allows businesses, merchants, governments, non-profits, issuers and others to send money to consumers whether they are banked or unbanked, and located domestically or abroad.
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