POWER OF ATTORNEY

	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Noah J.
Hanft, Bart S. Goldstein and Craig R. Brown, signing singly, the undersigned's
true and lawful attorney-
in-fact to:

(1)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer
and/or director of MasterCard Incorporated (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in

accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the
rules
thereunder and a Form ID application for access codes to file on EDGAR;

(2)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be
necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 or Form
ID,
complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such
form
with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange
  or
similar authority; and

(3)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in
the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest
  of, or
legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents
executed by
such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of
Attorney
shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such
attorney-in-
fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

        The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power
and authority to do and
perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper
to be done in the
exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents
  and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes,
shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and
the rights and powers herein
granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity
at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company
assuming, any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 or the
rules thereunder.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned, after
becoming subject to the requirements to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to
the undersigned's holdings
of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, ceases to be subject to
  those requirements,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as
of this 30th day of January, 2012.


						/s/ Nancy J. Karch
						Nancy J. Karch





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