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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
News/payments
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
News/Cards
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
As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2018, we take a look back at our most popular news items and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2019.
News/startups
TotallyMoney, a fintech startup providing consumer credit reports, has agreed £29 million of funding from Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited (Elliott) and existing investors Scottish Equity Partners (SEP).
20 December 2018
Global ATM installations are set to fall for the time as the mega Chinese market switches away from cash to digital payments.
18 December 2018
Fundraisers for Save the Children have donned Christmas jumpers with a contactless reader built into the sleeve as part of the charity's annual festive appeal for donations.
17 December 2018
Australia's New South Wales Government has carved up its transactional banking contract with Westpac, in the process handing out plum assignments for ANZ and Citi.
13 December 2018
Barclays Bank has become the first of the UK's incumbents to follow the example set by challengers Starling and Monzo in enabling customers to block payments to certain categories of retailer, such as gambling services and premium rate websites and phone lines.
11 December 2018
Mastercard has recruited PPRO Group to help push the uptake of of its Pay by Bank app to merchants in the UK.
05 December 2018
Londoners appalled by the growing levels of rough sleepers on the capital's streets can now make contactless donations to homelssness charities through a network of terminals across the city.
T-Mobile is taking a second shot at the American banking scene, teaming up with BankMobile to launch an app-based checking account.
04 December 2018
Zopa has received a UK banking license, paving the way for the peer-to-peer lending pioneer to launch a brand-new suite of financial products built on proprietary technology.
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