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News/crypto
Barclays has suspended debit and credit card payments from UK customers to Binance, citing recent Financial Conduct Authority action against the crypto exchange.
05 July 2021
News/payments
Worldline has signed a binding agreement for the acquisition of 80% of Axepta Italy, the merchant acquiring arm of BNL banking group.
01 July 2021
Citi Australia is taking on local buy now, pay later vendors Afterpay and Zip, joining forces with online retailer Kogan.com to allow credit cardholders to enter into an instalment loan at checkout.
News/sustainable
Berlin-based fintech pliant has unveiled a corporate credit card that promises to ensure fully carbon neutral travel.
News/startups
Deserve, a provider of bespoke white label mobile-centric API and SDK-based credit card technology, has raised $50 million in a Series D funding round joint-led by Mastercard.
24 June 2021
News/inclusion
The Unizest brand has been relaunched, working with job recruiters to offer overseas workers in the UK an electronic current account.
Zeller, the Australian business banking startup that launched last month, has raised another A$50 million in funding led by Spark Capital.
23 June 2021
Fiserv and Deutsche Bank have formed a joint venture for payment acceptance in Germany.
21 June 2021
Fresh from a $51 million Series B funding round led by Accel, Banking-as-a-Service player Unit has launched a product it says will allow companies to create live bank accounts and issue cards in minutes.
17 June 2021
Visa has launched its first Tap to Phone pilot in the United States, providing minority-owned small businesses in Washington with the ability to accept payments with a simple card tap on an Android handset.
During 2020 the number of contactless payments made in the UK increased by 12% to 9.6 billion payments, with the pandemic driving a mass-market switch away from physical cash.
16 June 2021
US comms network Verizon is to issue a payments card and app for children aged eight to 17.
B9, a US startup building a financial app for immigrants that provides interest-free payroll advances, has raised $1.7 million in an ongoing pre-seed funding round.
15 June 2021
Finland's Enfuce is partnering with Visa to roll out a fast-track, eight-week programme for European fintechs to launch their own payment cards.
04 June 2021
Thousands of asylum seekers in the UK have been left without access to money they are entitled to from the government because of issues with a prepaid card provider, say charities.
03 June 2021
News/predictions
As Europe's proposed alternative to Visa and Mastercard takes shape, evidence from Russia suggests that an upstart rival can break the American giants' duopoly - if government is prepared to put its finger on the scale.
02 June 2021
Standard Charetered has contracted with Sweden's Doconomy to provide customers with a digital tool that tracks carbon emissions and freshwater consumption on goods bought using the bank's credit and debit cards.
01 June 2021
US corporate card unicorn Brex has joined an $8.75 million seed funding round for for Indian peer Kodo.
28 May 2021
News/regulation
Controversial fintech startup Lanistar is back in the wars again after the Advertising Standards Authority ruled that claims made by the firm about the saffety of its card payments product could not be substantiated.
26 May 2021
UK card-to-card payments platform Paysend has secured $125 million in Series B funding to grow its global footprint.
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