Mastercard’s latest initiative to move beyond its network expertise in facilitating card payments includes software development kits (SDKs) that banks, merchants, and corporations can use to access application programming interfaces (APIs) to a new distributed ledger or blockchain technology. The first use case will be for cross-border business-to-business (B2B) payments. Mastercard says it will conduct tests with select financial institution clients in coming months to help create a global blockchain strategy. The first commercially available blockchains touted security through complete ...