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News/payments
Mastercard is joining forces with Coinbase to enable people to buy NFTs with their debit and credit cards.
18 January 2022
News/regulation
The UK's Payment Systems Regulator has imposed fines totalling £33 million on five firms, including Mastercard, for violation of anti-trust laws in the issue of prepaid cards to vulnerable people on welfare benefits.
Amazon has deferred its plan to stop customers using Visa credit cards at the last minute, says the Independent.
17 January 2022
As Amazon UK stops accepting Visa credit cards from later this week, fintech Curve says it has a "hack" that will enable shoppers to still make payments with the banned cards.
News/crypto
Visa is working with blockchain firm ConsenSys on a project to help bridge CBDC networks with existing payment rails.
13 January 2022
Petal, a US credit card startup that is ditching traditional credit scores in an effort to sign up young people and the underbanked, has raised a $140 million Series D round of funding.
06 January 2022
Riding the BNPL wave, Mastercard-backed Indian merchant commerce platform Pine Labs has picked up a fresh $20 million investment from the country's largest commercial bank, the State Bank of India (SBI).
04 January 2022
Canadian payments firm Nuvei is to roll out crypto-friendly debit cards across Europe and the UK through its recently-acquired subsidiary Simplex.
14 December 2021
News/retail
American Express has teamed up with Nova Credit to enable more newcomers to the US to use their home-country credit history to apply for its cards.
07 December 2021
Payment processor Worldline is to buy an 80% stake in Eurobank Merchant Acquiring, one of the main acquirers in Greece with a 20% market share.
UK-based buy now, pay later provider Butter is bidding to put a nail in the coffin of the credit card with the launch of its own BNPL card.
Finnish Card-as-a-Service platform Enfuce has closed a €45 million Series C investment round led by international growth investor Vitruvian Partners.
06 December 2021
News/security
An analysis of more than four million payment cards being hawked on the dark web reveals that they belong to citizens of 140 countries and are selling for an average of $9.70.
02 December 2021
News/startups
Singapore-based neobank YouTrip has raised US$30 million in a Series A funding round that will fuel its move into B2B payments and the wider Southeast Asian market.
01 December 2021
Slice, a fintech startup which offers card-based products to young Indians to help them build a better credit score, has raised $220 million in a Series B funding round that values the firm at over $1 billion.
29 November 2021
Monzo's buy now, pay later product, Flex, will come with a virtual card that lets users make contactless Apple Pay or Google Pay payments in-store.
26 November 2021
Stripe is bringing its payment infrastructure to the physical world with the launch of its point-of-sale Terminal product in Ireland, France, Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands.
23 November 2021
Russian food retailer, that operates Pyaterochka, Perekrestok and Karusel brands, will uplift loyalty cards and add banking services such as payments, money transfers and rouble-denominated cashback.
19 November 2021
US Bank has agreed to buy expense and travel management platform TravelBank. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
17 November 2021
The European Payments Initiative, a bank-backed effort to build a rival to Mastercard and Visa in Europe, is appealing for outside funding to get the project off the ground.
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