Mastercard (MA) partners with Swoo Pay to bring cryptocurrency rewards to emerging regions

“There are billions of users in many emerging countries such as Nigeria, Kenya, Philippines and Indonesia who have MasterCard and Visa cards but do not have access to Google Pay,” Shubin said in an interview. “Another issue concerns countries where Huawei smartphones have a large market share, because there are no Google services other than these phones due to sanctions from the US government.”