Mastercard has introduced Mastercard Advanced B2B Analytics, a card acceptance analytics platform designed to provide dynamic, accurate, and actionable supplier payment insights in minutes, addressing one of the biggest pain points for banks and corporates.
Emirates NBD is one of the first financial institutions to launch the solution in the UAE. Issuers can now drive commercial card spend at scale, capture additional revenues, and help corporate clients identify opportunities to optimise working capital.
“Businesses today are sitting on vast amounts of payment data, but too often it remains fragmented and underutilised,” said Marc Pettican, Global Head of Corporate Solutions at Mastercard. “With Advanced B2B Analytics, we’re combining powerful insights with our deep commercial payments expertise to help issuers identify where card acceptance can deliver the greatest value, engage suppliers more effectively, and drive measurable growth.”
Issuers and corporate buyers today often lack an insights-driven way to identify and prioritise supplier acceptance opportunities. Fragmented data and manual processes can slow conversion and prolong reliance on less efficient payment methods. According to Mastercard, 83% of buyer-side and 87% of supplier-side stakeholders say they need more tailored engagement, while nearly half of suppliers expect buyers to request card payments more frequently in the years ahead.
Through Mastercard’s latest commercial payments innovation, issuers can enable their corporate customers to:
- Identify suppliers most likely to accept card payments using dynamic acceptance propensity scoring enabled by an underlying AI-powered infrastructure
- Gain actionable insights from accounts payable data through interactive dashboards and analytics
- Optimise working capital with greater visibility into payment flows
- Scale commercial card adoption and improve supplier engagement through more targeted outreach
- Access Mastercard expertise and recommendations to support supplier prioritisation and growth strategies
For financial institutions, Advanced B2B Analytics offers a differentiated way to deepen client relationships and accelerate commercial card growth, helping capture a share of the approximately $80 trillion addressable B2B payments opportunity.
Emirates NBD and ABSA Group are among the first financial institutions to offer Advanced B2B Analytics to their corporate clients, leveraging data-driven insights to identify supplier acceptance opportunities and unlock greater value from their payables. This capability will help clients optimise working capital, accelerate virtual card adoption, and drive greater efficiency across commercial payments.
By connecting payment, acceptance, and performance insights, Mastercard is building toward a future where intelligence is embedded across the commercial payments lifecycle. Mastercard Advanced B2B Analytics is the first foundational capability supporting that vision.
As AI continues to evolve, Mastercard said it will further extend intelligence and insights to the supplier and acquirer side of the ecosystem, progressively scaling across the commercial payments journey to create more connected, proactive, and personalised experiences.
This reflects Mastercard’s broader strategy of embedding data, analytics, and AI into the infrastructure that powers payments, helping customers make smarter decisions, optimise outcomes, and realise greater value from every payment interaction.
