MasterCard, Tata Partner To Give 25,000 Women Digital Financial Tools

MasterCard and Tata Communications partnered to financially empower 25,000 women in developing countries by giving them connected digital financial tools, Tata said in a news release Wednesday. The initiative, announced by both companies at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, is part of a larger plan to reach 100 million women globally by 2020, said the release. The businesses, in coordination with a network of partners, will begin with pilot projects in India, Indonesia, Guatemala and Nigeria, said Tata.