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News/Cards
Digital remittance outfit Remitly is entering the banking business, launching an online account for US-based immigrants.
03 February 2020
News/payments
Worldline is to acquire French peer Ingenico for EUR7.8 billion, creating a European payments powerhouse and the fourth-largest player in payment services worldwide.
For the first time, in the fourth quarter of last year Russians made more payments digitally than with cash, according to analysis from Sberbank.
News/security
Mastercard has made a strategic investment in AI-generated identity authentication company Trust Stamp.
31 January 2020
Nationwide Building Society is trialling a "smart window poster" that people can tap with their contactless cards to make donations to a homeless charity.
Payments Canada is bringing in a rule designed to enable broader point-of-sale debit card acceptance, paving the way for people to use their plastic for, among other things, public transit fares.
30 January 2020
News/crime
The payment card details of more than 30 million Americans, believed to have been stolen in a data breach at convenience store chain Wawa, have been put up for sale on the dark web.
A Russian national who ran a criminal marketplace for selling stolen payment cards has pleaded guilty to multiple charges in a US Federal Court.
28 January 2020
New York City Council has voted to ban cashless stores and restaurants, arguing that they discriminate against the unbanked.
27 January 2020
Mastercard has invested in Indian merchant commerce platform Pine Labs, as part of a collaborative effort to capitalise on growing demand for buy-now, pay-later installment financing in Asia.
24 January 2020
Mastercard has opened an intelligence and cyber centre in Vancouver, housing 380 new employees working on areas such as security, AI and the Internet of Things.
23 January 2020
Far from sounding the death knell for cash, the rise of digital payments will instead lead to the extinction of the plastic card, according to Deutsche Bank research on the future of payments.
All new cards sent out by issuers in India will not be contactless enabled or capable of online or international payments until the customer turns on these features, under new central bank rules.
Visa is taking its 'access to cash' programme industry-wide, working with partner banks to offer high street retailers in remote and rural locations a fee for processing cashback transactions over the counter.
22 January 2020
News/devops
Mastercard is working with US card issuing platform Marqeta to provide a programme for European fintechs to rapidly deploy new applications, with Prague-based payments app Twisto the first beneficiary.
Flutterwave, a payments startup operating in Africa, is looking to expand across the continent after closing a $35 million funding round and securing partnerships with Visa and WorldPay.
21 January 2020
News/startups
Days after splashing out $5.3 billion to acquire data sharing startup Plaid, Visa has opened its wallet again to invest an undisclosed sum in data security outfit Very Good Security.
16 January 2020
Swedish payment institution P.F.C. is introducing a retroactive buy-now, pay-later option for users to convert purchases to a part-payment after the fact.
A US judge has rubber-stamped a $1.38 billion settlement related to the massive 2017 data breach at Equifax - capping the amount available for cash payouts to victims.
NatWest is to provide Esme Loans and Rapid Cash lending services direct to users of pre-paid company card Soldo, as the bank aims to increase lending to SMEs throughout 2020.
15 January 2020
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