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News/Cards
French telco Orange is launching its mobile-only bank in Spain, tempting customers with a discount on their phone bills.
26 November 2019
American Express has teamed up with life insurance and investment outfit Vitality to launch a credit card that rewards Brits for being physically active.
News/security
Switzerland's Cornèrcard has teamed up with Gemalto and Visa to launch the country's first credit card featuring a biometric fingerprint reader.
21 November 2019
News/retail
Toronto-based online brokerage Questrade is applying for a federal banking licence, paving the way for it to open an online bank.
20 November 2019
News/payments
Sydney-based Tyro Payments is seeking to raise around A$250 million by floating on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
19 November 2019
A Russian man accused of running a website selling stolen payment card details has been extradited from Israel to the US.
15 November 2019
Copenhagen-based Cardlay has signed a breakthrough deal with Eurocard, the largest card issuer in Scandinavia, and secured $10 million in new funding from both current and new investors such as SEB Bank and Seed Capital
14 November 2019
Georgian neo bank Space, an app-only offshoot of FTSE 250 TBC Bank, is to expand its international footprint through a partnership agreement with Visa.
The State Bank of Pakistan has set out a new, digital-focused, national payment systems strategy designed to boost financial inclusion, particularity for women.
Ireland-based Prepaid Financial Services has agreed to sell 100% of its share capital to Australian payments firm EML for £226 million upfront plus an earn-out component worth £55 million.
13 November 2019
Nearly two thirds of organisations around the world that accept card payments are putting customers at risk by failing to ensure full PCI DSS compliance, according to a Verizon report.
12 November 2019
Following news of the probe into Apple Card’s credit worthiness algorithm after sexism claims, University of Edinburgh Business School reveals that including gender in credit scoring models improves women’s chances of being granted credit.
Visa is to acquire a 'significant' minority equity stake in Nigerian payments processor Interswitch in a deal that propels the African firm into Unicorn territory.
US regulators have opened a probe into the algorithm used to determine the credit worthiness of Apple Card applicants after a man took to Twitter to call it "sexist" for giving him a credit limit 20 times higher than his wife's.
11 November 2019
UK fintech Curve is now allowing its users with Android-operating devices to shop with Google Pay.
07 November 2019
Non-banks now account for a quarter of the institutions offering payment services or payment instruments, up from 14% in only six years, according to a fresh batch of statistics from the Bank for International Settlements.
06 November 2019
Ant Financial and TenCent have launched versions of their mobile payments apps for foreign visitors to China, making it easier for travellers to make purchases in the increasingly cash-averse country.
05 November 2019
Deserve, a provider of bespoke white label credit card and loyalty programmes for third party audiences, has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs.
RBS has joined forces with Mastercard, Motive Partners and EFM Asset Management to invest in merchant acquiring startup Pollinate.
01 November 2019
A month after setting up an access to cash fund, the UK's Link ATM network says it has received more than 100 requests for the installation of free-to-use cash machines by local communities.
31 October 2019
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