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News/payments
Debit cards have overtaken cash as the favoured payment method among consumers in Switzerland.
25 March 2025
Rain, a card issuing platform for stablecoins, has raises $24.5 million in new funding led by Norwest Venture Partners.
Welsh startup Burbank has raised £5 million to bring offline tap and pin payments to the e-commerce realm.
Abu Dhabi-based banking-as-a-Service vendor NymCard has secured $33 million in a Series B funding round.
19 March 2025
News/security
A Welsh fintech startup has developed a novel way to combat card-not-present fraud - by migrating offline tap and pin payments to the e-commerce realm.
18 March 2025
London-based digital wallet Curve has raised £37 million in a funding round led by Hanaco Ventures.
17 March 2025
The UK Financial Conduct Authority is inviting feedback on its previously-floated proposal to remove the £100 contactless limit on card payments.
14 March 2025
Amazon and Santander have launched a Visa credit card in Austria which rewards customers with cashbacks for shopping on Amazon and other sites.
13 March 2025
News/retail
Less than two years after launching, Mexican digital bank Plata has joined the unicorn club off the back of a $160 million Series A funding round.
Visa says that its newly-formed scam disruption practice prevented more than $350 million in attempted fraud in 2024.
12 March 2025
News/inclusion
Zolve, a neobank for immigrants to the US is planning international growth after securing $51 million in a Series B funding round led by Creaegis and joined by HSBC.
Sweden's central bank is working to improve the possibility of making offline payments by card to strengthen resilience at a time of geopolitical unease and the advance of Russian troops in Ukraine.
10 March 2025
Barclays Bank is closing in on a deal to offload its merchant acquiring business to Canada's Brookfield Asset Management.
American Express has entered into an agreement to acquire expense management software provider Center. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Revolut and Visa have filed legal challenges against the Payment Systems Regulator over the UK watchdog's decision to cap interchange fees on cross-border online payments, according to the Financial Times.
07 March 2025
The UK's Payment Systems Regulator is take action against Mastercard and Visa in the wake of steep hikes on card fees by the duopoly.
06 March 2025
Australian Payments Plus (AP+) has worked with Google to roll out eftpos functionality and least-cost routing (LCR) on transactions made via Google Wallet, giving merchants the options to move away from costly card scheme networks.
News/startups
Flex, a fintech that helps business owners automate their back offices, has raised $25 million in an equity round led by Titanium Ventures.
05 March 2025
News/wholesale
Finance automation and corporate credit card platform Ramp has hit a $13 billion valuation after investors purchased $150 million in secondaries from employees and early backers.
04 March 2025
Tap to Phone, Visa's technology that turns smart phones into payment terminals, has experienced a 200% increase in usage globally over the past year and a 300% surge among small business owners in the UK.
03 March 2025
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