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Mastercard Unveils Plan To Activate Crypto Adoption, Bitcoin’s Price Surges Afterwards

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Mastercard (NYSE: MA), Global payment facilitator unveils plans of partnering with Bakkt to enable banks. Also, including merchants on its network to integrate cryptocurrency features into their systems.

Furthermore, After the announcement by Mastercard, Bitcoin price spikes to over 4%. Currently, trading at around $63,171.
Recall, the price see decline over the weekend, trading below the $60,000 price mark.

As per the partnership between Global payment facilitator and and Bakkt, the new feature will be available to United States institutions.

More so, this partnership will allow clients to buy, sell and hold digital assets. Of course, this is through custodial wallets by Bakkt. Furthermore, users will also be able to spend and earn rewards in crypto.

“We want to offer all of our partners the ability to more easily add crypto services to whatever it is they’re doing…”
“Our partners, be they banks, fintechs, or merchants, can offer their customers the…”
“ability to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency through an integration with the Baktt platform,”

Sherri Haymond, Mastercard executive vice president of digital partnerships explains.

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Of course, The partnership will drive cryptocurrencies into the mainstream.
Notably, Global payment facilitator serves millions of clients globally, currently has 2.8 billion Mastercard in use.

Additionally, Mastercard reveals this partnership is due to Client’s demand and interest.

Lastly, The company gets CipherTrace, to run tests and support central bank digital currencies.

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