During Mastercard’s third-quarter earnings call, CEO Michael Miebach asserted, Mastercard is focused on facilitating crypto investments as well as readying its network for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Adding further, the CEO emphasized that “We can’t run fast enough right now” into the data privacy and authentication segment of Crypto. Earlier, in September Mastercard, had announced its plans to acquire CipherTrace, the Crypto intelligence firm.