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News/payments
Mastercard has launched a programme that uses open banking to streamline the account opening process for some US debit and prepaid products.
28 February 2024
Shares in French payments processor Worldline slipped in early morning trading after the company reported a net loss due to a €1.15 billion impairment charge in merchant services and a deteriorating outlook.
New Consumer Spend data from Barclays’ annual contactless trends report has revealed that 2023 was another record-breaking year for ‘touch and pay’, with the fastest growth coming among the over 65s.
27 February 2024
Finnish-founded card issuer and payment processor Enfuce has secured a UK e-money licence and installed former Tide CEO and Revolut COO Laurence Krieger as chairman.
Google is rejigging its mobile payments services again, killing off Google Pay in the US in favour of Google Wallet.
News/sustainable
ESG has a new meaning in 2024, with more and more financial institutions becoming increasingly transparent in their sustainable principles, and governments pushing harder for green regulation within the industry.
23 February 2024
Turkey's Garanti BBVA has rolled out a Mastercard contactless credit card with a built-in fingerprint scanner.
21 February 2024
Capital One has made a $35 billion bid to acquire Discover Financial Services, in a move that radically reshapes the payment card industry.
20 February 2024
Visa is teaming up with Conferma Pay to let financial institutions add virtual corporate cards into employees’ digital wallets.
12 February 2024
NatWest Bank has been confirmed as the first UK Bank to become a supplier on the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) new Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Open Banking.
09 February 2024
Citi Retail Services has picked technology from embedded lending platform ChargeAfter to power its products that let merchants offer credit and instalment loans at the point of sale.
06 February 2024
News/wealth
Indian fintech giant Cred is to move into the wealth management market with the acquisition of mutual fund and stock investment platform Kuvera.
HSBC UK has introduced its first standalone ‘Cash Pod’, which will provide improved access to cash in the Crown Glass Shopping Centre in Nailsea, North Somerset, in advance of the closure of the last bank in town.
05 February 2024
Fintech is a busy world and sometimes we miss out on the biggest stories. Here are some of the top stories we saw in January 2024.
02 February 2024
News/retail
Chairman of Grupo Financiero Banorte, Carlos Hank Gonzalez, has launched bineo, the first fully digital bank in Mexico.
News/security
Mastercard is turbocharging its fraud detection technology with generative AI that can scan a trillion data points to predict whether a transaction is likely to be genuine or not.
Biometric card company Zwipe is backing out of the payments market following disappointing uptake of its fingerprint-powered contactless cards.
31 January 2024
News/identity
Mastercard is hoping to consign passwords to the history books with a new biometric authentication service.
26 January 2024
News/regulation
America's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed a rule that would stop banks charging non-sufficient fund fees for transactions that are declined in real time.
24 January 2024
Citi has launched a free desktop browser extension that helps cardholders search for offers and coupons at thousands of online merchants.
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