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MA rides on strong global spending and 15% cross-border volume growth, but rising costs may test its momentum.

This article is part of our monthly series where we highlight five large-cap, relatively safe, dividend-paying companies offering significant discounts to their historical norms. We go over our filtering process to select just five conservative DGI stocks from more than 7,500 companies that are traded on U.S. exchanges, including OTC networks. In addition to the primary list that yields slightly over 4%, we present two other groups of five DGI stocks each, from moderate to high yields of up to 9%.

Income-focused investors can tend to focus primarily on those that come with relatively higher yields at the time. However, income investors focusing on a portion of their portfolio that contains reliable dividend growers can help to grow their cash flow over time passively. We are looking at two names today that have delivered remarkable dividend growth and are expected to be in a position to continue to do so going forward.

In the latest trading session, MasterCard (MA) closed at $585.44, marking a +0.22% move from the previous day.

MA's costs are climbing fast, but rising margins and strong revenues show its growth push may be paying off.

The Financial Transaction Services industry is aided by the widespread adoption of contactless payments, strong cross-border volumes and pursuit of M&A activities. Companies like V, MA, FI, FIS and GPN are well-positioned to thrive on the back of these favorable trends.

PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mastercard (NYSE: MA): What we are saying Mastercard and PayPal are teaming up to offer shoppers more choice and control over how they check out. Mastercard has innovated One Credential so that consumers can use a single credential that delivers multiple ways to pay and tailor their payment preferences. Whether shopping online or in store, shoppers will be able to use a single credential – no more juggling between multiple cards or payment methods. Now, Masterca.

EU antitrust regulators are asking retailers and payments companies whether a standardized summary of fees by Visa and Mastercard and more transparency on the charges would address their concerns, according to documents seen by Reuters.

I track 50 high-quality dividend growth stocks to identify opportune investments, updating valuation ratings daily to focus on attractive opportunities. In this turbulent year, my investable universe outperformed SPY and SCHD year-to-date, with a gain of 2.08% compared to 0.56% and -3.36%. This month, 12 stocks had valuation rating changes; 5 were upgrades, including Ferrari, Pool Corporation and Accenture PLC, all with strong expected returns.

Deutsche Bank and Mastercard partnered to enable merchants across Europe to offer pay-by-bank functionality to their customers. The partnership will enable merchants to offer this functionality through Deutsche Bank's Merchant Solutions, with the account-to-account payments based on Mastercard's open banking network, the companies said in a Tuesday (June 3) press release.