Mastercard, the international credit card issued by several Namibian banks, announced this week that Raghav Prasad is the company's new Division President for sub-Sahara Africa. Prasad is tasked to strengthen Mastercard's position in Africa by leveraging technology to build stronger and more inclusive payment ecosystems.
Prasad brings his extensive 30-year global financial services and payments industry experience to further Mastercard's goal of financially including 100 million people by 2020 - an objective that can only be achieved by working with partners across the public and private sectors and by introducing market-relevant digital payment solutions such as Masterpass QR, Mastercard Payment Gateway Services along with its core Debit, Credit, Prepaid and Commercial solutions.
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