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News/Cards
American Express has blocked attempts by Curve to load Amex cards into its all-in-one wallet, just days after the UK startup announced support for the feature.
30 January 2019
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 $30 million Series B funding round led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures.
29 January 2019
News/payments
Allied Irish Banks (AIB) is in exclusive talks to buy local payments outfit Payzone in a deal that could be worth EUR100 million, according to the Sunday Times.
Canadian mobile contactless payments outfit Mobeewave has increased the size of its Series B funding round to almost US$20 million thanks to new money from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.
28 January 2019
Private equity giant Advent International is buying a 51% stake in Argentinian payments firm Prisma Medios de Pago from a consortium of local banks and Visa International in a deal valuing the company at $1.42 billion.
22 January 2019
The European Commission has bashed Mastercard with a EUR570 million fine for obstructing merchant access to low-cost cross-border payment services.
The Australian Payments Council is calling for input from businesses, NGOs, government and consumers on what’s needed to support payments in the digital economy of the future.
News/startups
Fingerprint payment card firm Zwipe has successfully raised $14 million in an oversubscribed offering of new shares to institutional investors and the general public.
21 January 2019
Square continues to spread its tentacles into the banking world through the launch of a debit card for businesses that gives sellers real-time access to funds.
17 January 2019
Mastercard is changing its rules to stop merchants using free trials as a ruse to charge for hard-to-cancel recurring subscriptions.
News/retail
Fiserv has struck a $22 billion, all-stock deal to buy First Data, creating a payments and fintech behemoth.
16 January 2019
News/security
Cash-out crooks have a new weapon in their armoury: the Fuze Card, which lets users store all of their (stolen) credit and debit cards on a single piece of plastic, the US Secret Service is warning.
14 January 2019
Square has lost its head of payments, Mary Kay Bowman, to Visa, where she takes on the role of Head of seller solutions.
11 January 2019
Mastercard has taken the bold step of removing its name from its logo in a move it says is inspired by the rise of digital banking and a future where there will be less reliance on card payments.
10 January 2019
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recruited the Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani to head up an advisory panel on the development of digital payments.
09 January 2019
With the 8th of January marking Divorce Day – the UK’s most popular day to start divorce proceedings - Tandem Bank product director Matt Ford revealed that despite the act of changing banking provider becoming simpler, consumers are still misinformed and discouraged.
08 January 2019
Fraud on contactless cards now accounts for more than half of debit and credit card crime, as criminal push the £30 PIN-free limit to the max.
04 January 2019
Mastercard has hired Donald Chesnut from SapientRazorfish as it first chief experience officer.
Fingerprint payment card firm Zwipe is bidding to raise $13.7 million by applying for a listing on Oslo Bors' multilateral trading facility Merkur Market.
It’s been a busy year for the Finextra TV team, posting 251 video interviews with leading industry figures during the course of 2018. Here are the top five by viewing figures.
21 December 2018
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