Another step towards driving digital wallet interoperability and innovation.
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – The OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), an open source project advancing digital wallets and credentials by fostering collaboration across industries and between public and private sector, is proud to announce Mastercard as its newest premier member. Mastercard’s involvement further strengthens OWF’s mission to drive interoperability, innovation, and openness in the digital wallet ecosystem.
Hosted by Linux Foundation Europe, OWF provides a vendor-neutral space for companies, non-profits, and the public sector to collaborate on the development of open source software for interoperable digital wallets. Mastercard joins a group of stakeholders working to ensure secure, inclusive, and privacy-respecting wallet solutions for users around the globe.
“We’re excited to welcome Mastercard, a global leader in payments technology and innovation, to the OpenWallet Foundation,” said Daniel Goldscheider, Founder and Executive Director of the OpenWallet Foundation. “Mastercard’s participation is a significant endorsement of our shared vision for a more interoperable and open wallet infrastructure.”
Mastercard has long championed innovation and collaboration across the payments ecosystem and is deeply engaged in global efforts to ensure safe, seamless digital interactions. By joining OWF, Mastercard will contribute its extensive expertise to ongoing initiatives that aim to reduce fragmentation, improve interoperability, and foster adoption of open standards in the wallet space.
By partnering with the OpenWallet Foundation, Mastercard aims to leverage its expertise in digital identity to enhance OWF’s initiatives. This collaboration will pave the way for innovative solutions that promote interoperability and secure digital interactions,” said Dennis Gamiello, Executive Vice President, Identity, Mastercard.
This milestone highlights OWF’s growing momentum as a collaborative initiative uniting public and private sector leaders in building foundational technologies for the next generation of digital wallets. As digital identity and payment systems continue to evolve, the importance of open source and cross-industry cooperation is more vital than ever.
“I’m thrilled to see OWF continue to grow with the addition of Mastercard,” said Gabriele Columbro, General Manager of Linux Foundation Europe. “Mastercard’s joining represents a strong signal from a key industry player that open collaboration is essential to solving complex challenges around digital trust and wallet interoperability.”
With Mastercard now onboard, the OpenWallet Foundation further solidifies its position as the leading open source initiative focused on wallet innovation, building the infrastructure needed to support privacy-centric and user-controlled digital interactions at scale.
For more information about the OpenWallet Foundation and how to get involved, please visit openwallet.foundation.
About OpenWallet Foundation
The OpenWallet Foundation (OWF) provides a safe space for developers to collaborate on standards-based open source components that issuers, wallet providers and relying parties can use to bootstrap implementations that preserve user choice, security and privacy. Working closely with the OpenWallet Forum which is hosted at ITU OWF brings the public and private sector together to work towards open, secure and interoperable digital wallets. OWF is an open initiative under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. For more information, please visit openwallet.foundation
