Mastercard launches dev platform for building payment, security apps

Mastercard launched an ambitious open Mastercard Developers platform today to help third-party developers easily create commerce-related apps and services.
Developers will be able to use six different coding languages to work with 25 different Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in payment, data, security and experimental areas. The experimental category includes APIs for bot commerce such as chatbots and virtual reality and augmented reality devices.
In one example of how a bot commerce