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News/retail
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
News/payments
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
News/startups
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
Japan is running out of 16-digit credit card numbers amid a government effort to encourage electronic payments and a surge in online shopping during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to local press reports.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has set up an international subsidiary to sell the technology behind its RuPay network and Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to other countries
21 August 2020
New research commissioned by GoCompare Money reveals that a third of UK adults are avoiding using cash because of the risk of spreading the Coronavirus, despite reassurances by central banks and the World Health Organisation over the safety of cash payments.
18 August 2020
Crooks have snaffled dining reservation information from the Ritz hotel in London and used it to call customers in an effort to trick them into handing over their card details.
17 August 2020
Abu Dhabi-based fintech NymCard has received in-principle approval (IPA) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FRSA) to hold and transfer money, issue payment instruments with stored value and carry out currency exchange.
BBVA is offering customers zero-touch contactless cash withdrawals from ATMS as a means to promote safety and hygiene protocols during the pandemic.
11 August 2020
All-in-one card Curve is bidding for £10 million from the RBS bail out fund as it prepares to move into the small business market.
10 August 2020
News/inclusion
The Reserve Bank of India is prepping an offline digital payments pilot to encourage the migration from cash in rural areas that lack internet connectivity.
07 August 2020
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