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British Airways faces £183m fine over data breach

British Airways faces a record £183.39 million fine for a data breach last year that compromised the personal information - including payment card details - of hundreds of thousands of people.

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Nordea invests EUR5m in neobank P.F.C

Nordic banking giant Nordea has invested EUR5 million in P.F.C (Personal Finance Co.), a recently launched Swedish neobank.

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Manchester Metrolink goes contactless

Passengers travelling on Manchester's tram network can now use their contactless payment cards to pay their fares, in the first aggregated Pay As You Go implementation on light rail outside of London

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Uber drives financial inclusion with in-app account from BBVA

Uber is tapping the power of Open Banking to provide unbanked drivers with access to a digital account from BBVA within its mobile app in Mexico.

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Kyash raises $14 million for cashless Japan push

Japanese payments app and putative challenger bank Kyash has raised $14 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Mitsubishi UFJ and Goodwater Capital, the VC firm that recently participated in Monzo's £113 million raise.

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Visa to buy Verifi

Visa is buying Verifi, a payment dispute resolution technology specialist that promises to help firms reduce chargebacks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Goldman Sachs could create digital coin

Goldman Sachs could follow JPMorgan Chase in creating a digital coin, CEO David Solomon has revealed in an interview in which he also dismissed the threat of tech giants such as Facebook moving beyond payments into deposits.

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Visa rolls out payment instalment APIs

Visa has introduced a suite of APIs to help financial institutions and retailers offer their customers the option to pay off instore and online purchases in instalments.

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Indian neobank Open raises $30m

Open, an Indian neo-banking startup targeting SMEs, is set to launch a "programmable" bank account after raising $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management.

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Visa buys Rambus tokenisation assets

Visa is beefing up its security credentials by buying the token services and ticketing business of chip maker Rambus. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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India to review payments data storage rule

The Indian central bank has been persuaded to reconsider a controversial law that mandates payments data should not be allowed to leave India's borders.

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Swedish central bank looks to TIPS for instant payments

Sweden's central bank says it plans to join the ECB's Target Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) system to bring 24/7 real-time payments to the country by 2021.

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Brex raises $100m at $2.6bn valuation

Just a year after launching its corporate credit card for startups, US fintech Brex has hit a $2.6 billion valuation off the back of a $100 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund.

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Uber makes New York hires for fintech push

Uber has embarked on a hiring spree in New York as part of an aggressive move into financial services that could even see the ride hailing app launch its own bank account, according to CNBC.

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Citi hitches a ride with Grab

Citibank has struck a deal with Asian ride-hailing firm Grab to launch a co-branded credit card in the Philippines.

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Melbourne payments startup Verrency raises A$10 million

Australian payments innovation startup Verrency has closed a A$10 million Series A funding round ahead of a planned expansion to Singapore and US markets.

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Amazon targets unbanked with 'Credit Builder' card

Amazon has teamed up with Synchrony Financial to launch a secured credit card targeted at Americans with no credit history or bad credit.

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Sberbank to open pilot branch in McDonald's outlet

Customers of Russia's Sberbank will soon be able to do their banking with a side-order of Big Mac and Fries following a collaboration deal agreed between the state-owned banking entity and the giant US burger chain.

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Amaiz launches biz banking app for UK 'solopreneurs'

UK startup Amaiz has launched an app-based specialist banking service for freelancers, gig workers, entrepreneurs and contractors.

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Millions of Brits go cashless amid rise of contactless and mobile banking

With mobile banking and contactless payments becoming ever more popular in the UK, one in 10 Brits now live a largely cashless life, according to figures from UK Finance.