The payments space is tumultuous and fast-moving, with new entrants appearing all the time. So how does a global payments company cope, and deal with diverse challenges such as paying with selfies, P2P payments, and blockchain, not to mention Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Anrdroid Pay, and all the other “Pays”?

Debbie Barta, MasterCard’s senior vice president of innovation, intrapreneurship, and partnerships, takes on these questions in the latest episode of INV Unfiltered.

Barta is responsible for managing MasterCard Labs’s global network of startup competitions, as well as its developer portal and APIs. In this episode, Barta describes the challenges in securing customer payment data in the post-Equifax-breach world, and in the emerging Internet of Things.

Barta has been at MasterCard since 2007 in a variety of capacities, including fraud management and startup engagement, and holds degrees from Washington University, Webster University, and Stanford University.

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INV Fintech is a global accelerator that seeks startups that target any and all facets of the fintech ecosystem. The accelerator partners with technology companies, as well as banks to create the best possible startups, technologies and financial services products.