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News/crypto
Crypto payments firm Wirex has raised over £3.7 million in a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, beating its initial target by 370%.
16 October 2020
News/payments
Bulgarian e-money institution Paynetics has acquired the corporate payout card portfolio of Wirecard UK and Ireland.
09 October 2020
Garanti BBVA has begun issuing a rewards-based credit card that stores credit card numbers, expiration dates and CVV codes on a separate mobile app, rather than on the physical card itself.
Mastercard has invested in open API card issuing and processing platform Marqeta as part of a wider deal that will see the pair partner in a host of new geographies, beginning with Asia Pacific.
08 October 2020
Visa has struck a deal with Stripe to enable buyers on Visa Payables Automation to pay suppliers who are unable to accept digital payments through the use of a virtual Visa card.
News/inclusion
US fintech startup Petal has unveiled a credit card designed for people with non-prime credit scores in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.
P2P payments giant Venmo has launched its first credit card, which comes with a personalised rewards setup and a built in QR code.
05 October 2020
As Sibos 2020 kicks off, we look back to some of the predictions and forecasts made in 2010 and pick through what lessons can be learnt from the post-financial crisis world to inform strategy in the not dissimilar economic environment of today.
News/startups
Step, a teenager-focused US mobile banking startup backed by Stripe, has enlisted TikTok star Charli D’Amelio to help publicise its launch this week.
02 October 2020
Mastercard is encouraging merchants to load up their logos to a new site managed by fraud platform Ethoca, in an effort to minimise dispute resolutions claims by confused consumers.
30 September 2020
Samsung has joined forces with Visa and Solarisbank to enable Germans to link an account with almost any bank to its contactless mobile payments service.
Portuguese payments processor Sibs is the latest firm to pick up a piece of the Wirecard empire, acquiring its operations in Romania.
29 September 2020
National Australia Bank has struck a multi-year deployment deal with merchant acquiring startup Pollinate and taken a stake in the UK-based fintech.
News/retail
Singapore's United Overseas Bank (UOB) has become the world's first lender to use a new Visa API that lets customers add cards to third party apps without the physical plastic.
News/security
New European rules on Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) could block more than one-third of online purchases and cost merchants more than $100 billion in lost sales, according to an analyis by payments consultancy CMSPI.
28 September 2020
Greenlight Financial Technology, the startup behind an app and debit card for kids, has joined the unicorn club after closing a $215 million Series C funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation.
25 September 2020
Petal, a US credit card startup that is ditching traditional credit scores in an effort to sign up young people and the underbanked, has closed a $55 million Series C funding round led by Valar Ventures.
24 September 2020
News/devops
Standard Chartered has announced the official opening of its virtual bank in Hong Kong
22 September 2020
Australian working capital startup Cape is preparing to launch a corporate credit card powered by Open Banking technology early next year.
18 September 2020
News/people
Six months after Covid-19 began forcing firms and their staffers to make the switch to working from home, San Francisco-based fintech Brex is embracing the change and becoming a permanent remote-first employer.
14 September 2020
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