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News/payments
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.
05 October 2020
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
National Australia Bank is offering an alternative to third party buy now, pay later offerings with the launch of an interest-free credit card.
10 September 2020
Starling Bank is to launch its Kite debit card, which can be used by children under the age of 16 for spending online, instore and withdrawing cash from ATMs.
09 September 2020
The European Commission has opened a preliminary investigation into Visa's rules regarding staged digital wallets.
07 September 2020
Tandem Bank is the latest UK challenger to undertake a business pivot in the midst of the pandemic, shutting down its credit cards to focus instead on plain vanilla savings and loans.
04 September 2020
Monzo is to slap free-loading users with a three percent charge for ATM withdrawals amounting to over £250 per month and a £5 fee for replacing lost cards.
02 September 2020
Visa is using real-time AI to help financial institutions manage transaction authorisations during service outages and disruptions.
26 August 2020
Copper, an app-based banking startup targeting teens, has raised $4.3 million in a seed funding round led by PSL Ventures.
25 August 2020
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