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News/startups
Stripe has led a $22.5 million Series A funding round for Step, a teenager-focused US mobile banking startup that has built up a half million-strong waitlist in a matter of months.
06 June 2019
News/Cards
The world's biggest card issuer, China UnionPay, has stepped up its European ambitions after striking a deal with a UK back-office startup, Tribe Payments, that will see it offer debit and credit cards in Europe.
03 June 2019
News/regulation
The UK's Raphaels Bank has been fined £1.89 million for outsourcing failures which left thousands of customers unable to use their payment cards on Christmas Eve 2015.
30 May 2019
Zero Financial, a US startup that offers a checking account and rewards credit card that operates like a debit card, has closed a $20 million Series A financing round, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
24 May 2019
New York commuters will soon be able to skip the long lines to buy or reload their MetroCards with the roll out of a new 'tap and pay' option on subways and bus routes at the end of the month.
23 May 2019
News/payments
Canadian debit network Interac has teamed up with Mastercard to enable users of its e-Transfer P2P payments service send money to bank accounts around the world.
Marqeta has raised $260 million in a Series E funding round led by Coatue Management, valuing the open API card issuing and processing platform at nearly $2 billion.
22 May 2019
Germany, one of Europe's last bastions of cash, has seen card payments eclipse traditional cash-based payments for the first time according to a new study.
10 May 2019
ING has joined in a $14 million funding round in buy now, pay later app Twisto.
09 May 2019
Visa has completed the acquisition of UK-based Earthport, providing an entree for the card scheme into the $80 trillion account-to-account payments market.
08 May 2019
Mastercard is teaming up with prepaid specialist Edenred and the Mexican state of Sonora to trial the use of cards with embedded fingerprint sensors for benefit programme disbursement.
07 May 2019
British bank NatWest is launching a merchant acquiring service for SMEs, taking on Worldpay, the business that parent RBS was forced by the government to sell off nearly a decade ago.
02 May 2019
Britain’s free to use ATM network is on course to be "decimated" in the coming months unless urgent action is taken to protect access to cash, new research from Which? reveals.
01 May 2019
There may be no shortage of wearable payment options on the market, but one handy man has decided to opt for something a little more personal, and time consuming: dissolving his credit card and putting the RFID chip in a home-made resin ring.
The UK's competition watchdog has given the green light to PayPal's $2.2 billion takeover of Swedish mobile point-of-sale vendor iZettle.
30 April 2019
Mastercard and Visa have agreed to cut interchange fees for payments made in Europe by cards issued elsewhere by an average of 40% following an EU anti-trust investigation.
29 April 2019
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is abolishing the cash register with its first mobile scan and go outlet in London's Holborn Circus.
Chinese Internet powerhouse Tencent has made another investment in the Latin American fintech scene, buying a stake in Argentine mobile banking firm Uala.
24 April 2019
News/devops
California-based open API card issuing and processing platform Marqeta is driving ahead with its global expansion efforts, signing up its first four European customers.
Visa has unveiled a platform with a set of beta APIs and development tools that help issuers and issuer processors build and test digital payment products.
23 April 2019
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