Mastercard offering tech and scale to vaccination passport projects

“Mastercard has been looking to leverage its trusted brand and core capabilities, such as developing and managing large scale networks, or exchanging messages at speed, in areas beyond payments, such as open banking or identity infrastructure,” said Zil Bareisis, a senior analyst at Celent. “A digital health pass can be seen as a set of identity attributes and while it’s different to payments, the concepts of ‘issuing’ and ‘authorization’ are very much applicable.”