Image Credit: Mastercard From standards to scale: Mastercard joins Google on new protocol, works to bring Agent Pay to Microsoft Copilot Checkout and grows Start Path to turbocharge AI-powered commerce. January 20, 2026/Mastercard By Pablo Fourez, Chief Digital Officer, Mastercard Speed without trust is chaos. We’re able to zip along freeways precisely because […]
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January 20, 2026 By Blaise Udunze Nigeria’s deepening poverty crisis is no longer speculative; it is now statistically inevitable. Although the latest Consumer Price Index figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) suggest that headline inflation is cooling and growth indicators show tentative improvement, regrettably, more Nigerians are […]
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