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1 month ago | 
mastercard.com | Dianna Delling
Phishing, vishing, smishing, quishing, zishing? The types of cyber scams are growing. Here’s what you need to know.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
mastercard.com | Dianna Delling
“Something as minor as changing where a button is can help people get the cash assistance they need before they are evicted,” says Alice Halter. Halter should know. As a senior specialist in product design for Mastercard’s cybersecurity organization, her job is to create interfaces that make it as easy as possible for businesses to stave off attacks.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
mastercard.com | Dianna Delling
Earlier this month, Maldonado and his father, both huge soccer fans, had been thrilled to spend the day with Mexican footballer Héctor Herrera and actor Cristo Fernández, best known as the exuberant Dani Rojas of “Ted Lasso,” filming a video highlighting small businesses as part of Mastercard’s sponsorship of the CONMEBOL Copa América football tournament.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
mastercard.com | Dianna Delling
These women tend to start micro businesses out of necessity. Formal, well-paying jobs are scarce in these low- and middle-income countries, where the population is expected to double to 2.5 billion by 2050. Yet growing a business is difficult in a region where women have limited access to working capital — and face inferior credit terms when they manage to find it.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
wallstreet-online.de | Dianna Delling
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / March 27, 2024 / The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth BY DIANNA DELLING Mastercard When Javier Zamora arrived in South Florida to open Sushi Kong, he had all of the makings of a successful restaurant: a winning concept - an upbeat restaurant specializing in Latin-Asian fusion with a tropical flair; a proven track record as the founder of two similar restaurants back home in Argentina; and the perfect location in Coral Gables, an upscale, multicultural...
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
accesswire.com | Dianna Delling
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / March 27, 2024 / The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth BY DIANNA DELLING Mastercard When Javier Zamora arrived in South Florida to open Sushi Kong, he had all of the makings of a successful restaurant: a winning concept - an upbeat restaurant specializing in Latin-Asian fusion with a tropical flair; a proven track record as the founder of two similar restaurants back home in Argentina; and the perfect location in Coral Gables, an upscale, multicultural...
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
mastercard.com | Dianna Delling
So, as the immigrant fairy tale goes, Zamora and his wife poured all of their resources and love into Sushi Kong, and it quickly blossomed into a beloved neighborhood establishment. Yet none of their restaurateur magic mattered in early 2020, when Zamora, who’d always self-financed his ventures, sought a small business loan to upgrade his kitchen equipment. After a number of rejections from traditional lenders, he had nearly given up hope.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
mastercard.com | Dianna Delling
In the U.S. alone, consumers lost $10 billion to fraud in 2023 — a new record, according to new figures released by the Federal Trade Commission, and a $1 billion increase over 2023. More fraud reports — 2.6 million in all — were filed last year too.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
blog.geaerospace.com | Tiara Atwater |Dianna Delling
Michał Janczak was a 10-year-old growing up in Warsaw, Poland, when he received his first LEGO Technic set. Technic components, which include rods, gears, and other specialized parts in addition to the basic LEGO bricks, weren’t available in Poland at the time, but his father bought him a set while on an international business trip. The gift helped Janczak create countless new creations while paving the way for a future design engineering career.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
blog.geaerospace.com | Will Palmer |Dianna Delling
Melanie Markey was at an early-career crossroads. After finishing secondary school in Gloucestershire, England, where she’d grown up, she passed A-levels (university entrance exams) in business and had recently finished a human resources apprenticeship at a local engineering and manufacturing company. Yet she wasn’t convinced HR was her calling, and she knew she wasn’t cut out to be a full-time university student. “I’m more of a hands-on, learn-on-the-job kind of person,” she says.
