Mastercard Research Center (MRC) delivers cutting-edge consumer research and insights derived from systematic and ad hoc research across 60+ markets where Mastercard operates.
MRC provides large scale industrial research products and client specific research services. The solution encompasses a comprehensive suite of insightful research reports updated throughout the year combined with personalized customer facing deep dive offerings.
Market-wide Consumer Research Series: Comprehensive suite of research reports, trend analyses, and market forecasts. Metrics to evaluate performance, trends, opportunities, indexes and benchmarks. These research series are available inside the MRC platform.
Targeted Consumer Research: Deep dive research to provide tailored insights, yet scalable, to understand customer position and competitor benchmark. Developed with a market wide approach aiming to address multiple customers either by region, topic or segment.
Client Specific Research: Provided to clients with specific strategy/ tactical research needs, deep dive into topics such as CVP, marketing campaigns, regulatory impacts, technological innovations, combined with other Services offerings or stand alone.
Via MBI Platform customers can access:
Market-Wide consumer research series, which includes the following products:
- World Payment Advisory: Available for 54 Markets worldwide
- Account Based Payments Advisory: Available for 10 Markets in LAC
- SME Bulletin: Available for 22 Markets in LAC and EEMEA
- Crypto Panel: Available for 13 Markets in LAC and EEMEA
- Future of Payments: Available for 8 Markets in AP
Directly via MRC team:
Targeted Consumer Research and Client Specific research. Please write an email to mastercard.research.center@mastercard.com.
World Payment Advisory: Delivers cost-effective insights into payments, banking, and emerging technologies. Covering a range of industry topics, it provides in-depth consumer trends and technology analyses, helping financial leaders to stay competitive and respond effectively to market shifts. Quarterly Report.
Account Based Payments Advisory: Provides actionable insights into consumer behavior, fraud trends, and innovation opportunities in account-based payments. Quarterly Report.
SME Bulletin: Provides insights into the financial behaviors, expectations, and strategic outlooks of small and medium enterprises to guide product and service development. Quarterly Report.
Crypto Panel: Provides data-driven insights into global consumer attitudes, behaviors, and trends related to cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Quarterly Report.
Future of Payments: Provides insights into consumer attitudes toward emerging payment technologies to guide innovation and strategic planning. Bi-annual Report.
Mastercard Principal Issuers have access to MRC Market Wide consumer research series via Bulletin Opt Out initiative. Customers in each region have access to different content.
All the customers will be able to add One off sale of new country content for World Payments Advisory (WPA).
MRC products are typically used by Product Manager (both Commercial and Consumer), individuals in Innovation and Strategy teams, Data Analysts, as well as professionals in Marketing and Payments departments.
- Timely insights for proactive decision making: Continuously updated information ensuring the access to the latest market trends, regulatory changes, and technological advancements.
- Accessibility: Providing access to critical information based on research for a great number of countries on different hot topics.
- Customized solutions for specific needs: Ensure that the insights and recommendations are directly applicable to the customer’s business.
If you need further information, please reach out to: mastercard.research.center@mastercard.com.
