Mambu Integrated Mastercard Move Into Banking Platform
Financial institutions can now use a pre-built connection to access international payment capabilities.
Updated on Sept. 29, 2026 in Financial Services
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Mambu has integrated Mastercard Move into its Intelligent Core banking platform. This collaboration offers financial institutions a pre-built way to provide transparent and frictionless cross-border payments to their clients.
Why it matters
Financial institutions require simpler infrastructure to handle international transactions. This partnership addresses the growing global demand for seamless and efficient cross-border payment solutions.
Mastercard Move facilitates transactions across more than 200 countries and territories using over 150 supported currencies. The network reaches 17 billion endpoints and 95% of the global banked population.
The players
Mambu
Mambu is a cloud-native banking and financial services software platform that provides core banking systems for financial institutions.
Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry that connects consumers, financial institutions, and businesses.
The details
Mambu has connected its cloud-native Intelligent Core platform directly with Mastercard Move to streamline international money transfers. This development follows Mambu's 2024 acquisition of Numeral, further enhancing its payment processing infrastructure for institutional customers.
Timeline
Mambu acquired Numeral in 2024.
The strategic collaboration between Mambu and Mastercard was announced on September 29, 2026.
Market Landscape
This integration follows the industry trend of replacing legacy payment gateways with cloud-native, pre-built connectivity. By providing turnkey access to global networks, companies like Mambu are positioning themselves to capture market share from traditional, manual payment processing systems.
Customers of financial institutions using Mambu will likely experience faster and more transparent international payment processing. This shift may reduce the wait times and fees typically associated with traditional cross-border bank transfers.
The takeaway
Financial institutions are increasingly prioritizing plug-and-play integrations to compete with the speed of fintech newcomers. Adopting these pre-built frameworks allows traditional banks to improve service transparency without building extensive backend infrastructure from scratch.
Further reading
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