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WHAT WE DO

Mastercard Research Center

A comprehensive hub for market research, designed to empower businesses with the insights needed to drive data-driven strategic decisions.

Support strategic growth and enhance decision making with Mastercard Research Center

Mastercard Research Center offers end-to-end research solutions that deliver actionable market intelligence at scale.

From comprehensive industry reports and ready-to-use insights to fully customized projects, our approach integrates research, consulting, analytics and strategy.

Through structured programs and deep industry analysis, we empower organizations to make confident, data-driven decisions.

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Core solutions from Mastercard Research Center

 

Market-wide consumer research

Gain actionable insights and stay ahead of the curve with a powerful suite of research reports, trend analyses, and market forecasts—available through the Mastercard Business Intelligence platform. These reports help evaluate performance, uncover emerging opportunities, track key trends and benchmark against industry standards, empowering smarter, data-driven decisions.

Targeted consumer research

Focused research reports that deep dive into specific topics, segments or markets, delivering tailored yet scalable insights to understand customer positioning and competitor benchmarks.

Client specific research

Targeted research for strategic and tactical decision-making. Covering topics like CVP, marketing, regulation and innovation – available as a standalone offering or alongside other services.

End-to-end intelligence: turning market signals into strategic advantage

Whether you're seeking ready-made market insights or bespoke research engagements, our integrated approach combines consumer research, consulting, analytics and strategy. We deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions tailored to your unique objectives - empowering issuers, acquirers, and fintechs to make smarter, faster, and more customer-centric decisions in a rapidly evolving payments landscape.

 

Market-driven insights to fuel your business strategy

Access expertly curated research that delivers broad, market-wide insights on key industry topics and trends. Unlike tailored client solutions, these high-value reports offer scalable intelligence that multiple businesses can leverage. Each one is designed to help you evaluate market positioning, analyze the competitive landscape and uncover actionable opportunities—empowering smarter decisions across regions, segments and trends.

 

Research solutions tailored to you

Unlock client-specific research that delivers fully customized studies aligned to your strategic goals.
From customer value propositions to marketing performance, regulatory shifts and tech innovation, each project—qualitative or quantitative—is tailored in scope, methodology and scale. With an “always-on” model and optional services like translation, presentations and follow-up analysis, this offering turns insight into action. Available as a standalone or integrated solution.
 

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Why Mastercard Research Center?

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