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Fiserv agrees $22bn First Data acquisition

Fiserv has struck a $22 billion, all-stock deal to buy First Data, creating a payments and fintech behemoth.

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Criminal gangs use Fuze to store multiple stolen cards on one card

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.

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Visa poaches Square head of payments

Square has lost its head of payments, Mary Kay Bowman, to Visa, where she takes on the role of Head of seller solutions.

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Mastercard ditches name in logo rebrand

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.

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India central bank convenes digital payments panel

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recruited the Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani to head up an advisory panel on the development of digital payments.

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Brits more likely to get divorced than dump their bank – Tandem

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.

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Contactless card fraud on the up

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.

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Mastercard appoints first chief experience officer

Mastercard has hired Donald Chesnut from SapientRazorfish as it first chief experience officer.

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Fingerprint payment card firm Zwipe aims to raise $13.7 million

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.

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Lights, camera, action! Finextra TV highlights 2018

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.

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2018: The future of banking in the spotlight as digital trends take hold

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.

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Credit checking startup TotallyMoney agrees £29 million funding round

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).

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Global ATM market on the wane as China migrates to digital payments

Global ATM installations are set to fall for the time as the mega Chinese market switches away from cash to digital payments.

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Christmas jumpers; the contactless gift that keeps on giving

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.

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CBA misses out as ANZ and Citi land plum NSW Government contracts

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.

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Barclays debuts spend blocker for vulnerable customers

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.

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Mastercard bids to bypass own rails with Pay by Bank app promotion

Mastercard has recruited PPRO Group to help push the uptake of of its Pay by Bank app to merchants in the UK.

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London installs network of contactless donation points to help the homeless

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.

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T-Mobile targets US banking market

T-Mobile is taking a second shot at the American banking scene, teaming up with BankMobile to launch an app-based checking account.

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Zopa gets banking license

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.