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/sustainable

Visa launches Eco Benefits bundle

Visa has unveiled a package of sustainability-focused benefits for account issuers designed to enable and encourage their cardholders to go green.

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Daimler drivers will soon be able to pay with a finger

Daimler drivers will soon be able to pay for goods and services with the touch of a fingeprint, under a new 'connected car' partnership with Visa.

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SDG corporate debit card launched by quartet of payments players

RailsBank, Toqio, and Mastercard have partnered with fintech platform HealRWorld, to deliver a corporate debit card that rewards sustainable businesses and promotes their commitment to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Grover promotes circular economy with new debit card

German tech subscription platform Grover is teaming up with Solarisbank and Visa to bring embedded finance into its offering in a bid to encourage a societal shift towards the circular economy.

/retail

Revolut app lets customers sketch their own card design

Revolut cardholders can now create a design of their own choice, using images, texts, emojis and even freehand sketches, to be rendered in monochrom on a chosen card

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American Express opens business bank account

American Express has launched a digital checking account for businesses and issued its first ever debit card as part of the package.

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Validus buys KlearCard platform to bolster upcoming SME neobank

Singapore-based SME financing player Validus has acquired KlearCard’s business payments and expense management technology platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.

/startups

Visa invests in card tech startup Deserve

Visa has followed Mastercard in investing in Deserve, a provider of bespoke white label mobile-centric API and SDK-based credit card technology.

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Digital payments infrastructure startup Extend raises $40m

New York-based digital payments infrastructure provider Extend has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by March Capital and backed by B Capital, Point72 Ventures, Fintech Collective, Reciprocal Ventures, Wells Fargo, and Pacific Western Bank.

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Mastercard introduces accessible card design for visually impaired

Mastercard has delivered a new design standard using a series of notches on the side of the card to help visually impaired people distinguish between a credit, debit or prepaid card.

/crypto

Nium launches in the US with Crypto-as-a-Service platform

Singaporean embedded finance company Nium has launched in the US and extended its range of Banking-as-a-Service products to include cryptocurrency buying.

/startups

Brex hits $12.3bn valuation

Corporate credit card fintech Brex has seen its value soar to $12.3 billion after pocketing another $300 million in funding, according to TechCrunch.

/retail

BBVA launches digital retail bank in Italy

Spanish giant BBVA is making a push into the Italian retail banking market with the launch of a digital-only service.

/startups

Cred doubles valuation to $4 billion

Indian credit card bill payment app Cred has raised $251 million in a Series E funding round, almost doubling its valuation to $4 billion in six months.

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A2A startup kevin. secures $10 million seed investment

Kevin., a Lithuanian-based account-to-account payment startup, has secured $10 million of new capital in a seed funding round co-led by OTB Ventures and Speedinvest.

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CommBank rolls out new Point-of-Sale terminals; Square-alike card reader next up

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is replacing its suite of Android-based Albert POS terminals with a new 'Smart' platform developed in concert with Verifone.

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Goldman Sachs and American Express team on cloud-based payments

Goldman Sachs has teamed up with American Express to deploy a cloud-based payment service for large corporate clients.

/startups

X1 rolls out smart credit card to 350,000-strong waitlist

X1, the challenger credit card for digital natives founded by former Twitter executives, is rolling out of private beta to a waitlist of 350,000 people.

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Starling sees little demand for rise in contactless limit

Starling Bank is to let customers set their own contactless limit, noting little demand and a fair degree of concern over the raising of the contactless ceiling to £100 later this week.

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GPS raises $300 million

Global Processing Services, the payment processor behind a host of challenger bank startups, including Revolut and Starling, has raised $300 million from Advent International and Viking Global Investors.