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News/payments
Euro area consumers are gradually shifting towards cards for in-person retail payments, although cash remained the most used instrument at the end of 2019, according to data published by the European Central Bank.
02 December 2020
News/crypto
Cryptocurrency startup BlockFi is to release a credit card that rewards users for shopping by paying a bitcoin cashback bonus.
News/security
Authorities have prevented around €40 million in fraud losses thanks to a three-month long operation targeting dark web carding forums, claims crime agency Europol.
01 December 2020
A review of contact tracing in Australia has suggested using consumer credit card data to track the trail of people hosting the Covid-19 virus.
25 November 2020
The rush to abandon cash during the pandemic may be unnecessary, according to a scientific study from the Bank of England, which finds that the risk of Covid-19 transmission by banknotes is low.
24 November 2020
News/startups
HMBradley, a US digital banking platform promising to help reward people for saving and positive financial behaviour, has raised $18.25 million in a series A funding round led by Acrew Capital.
News/sustainable
Swiss bank UBS has replaced plastic with corn for a new environmentally-friendly credit card and also introduced a purely virtual card.
Visa has joined forces with Conferma Pay to launch a suite of B2B payment solutions to help improve cashflow for businesses and eliminate manual processes.
23 November 2020
Finland's largest financial services group, OP Financial, is to pilot the use of biomnetric fingerprint cards with local supplier TietoEvry.
Vancouver's Mogo is buying Toronto-based digital payments outfit Carta Worldwide in an all share deal worth C$24.2 million.
19 November 2020
Daylight, a new digital banking platform built for the 30-million-plus Americans that identify as LGBT+, has struck deals with Visa and Marqeta ahead of its launch.
Danske Bank has joined forces with fintech Zenegy on a service that automates the processing of corporate card payments.
News/regulation
The UK's Financial Services Authority has issued a warning to would-be investors in Lanistar, a much-hyped fintech startup aiming for a £1 billion valuation, stating that the firm is providing services or products without authorisation.
18 November 2020
Chase is wading into the booming buy now, pay later market, giving credit card customers the option to pay off a purchase over a period of time with no interest, just a fixed monthly fee.
17 November 2020
Banco Santander has acquired technology assets from the European merchant payments business of disgraced German payments processor Wirecard.
Ticketmaster has been fined £1.25 million over a 2018 data breach which saw the payment details of millions of people compromised, with tens of thousands of cards subjected to known fraud.
13 November 2020
Visa is to provide financial institutions and merchants with seamless access to a roster of 13 curated fintech partners offering a suite of value added digital payments services.
11 November 2020
BBVA has gone to extreme lengths to demonstrate the safety of its new line of 'blank' payment cards by publicly displaying the card issued to the bank's head of marketing on a billboard in Madrid's busiest shopping street.
30 October 2020
Upgrade, the US challenger bank launched by former Lending Club chief Renaud Laplanche, has launched a cash back rewards programme with a twist, crediting the cash to accounts when users pay down their monthly balance.
29 October 2020
Danske Bank is to phase out all existing payment cards and replace them with cards made from 86% recycled plastic.
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