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Businesses flock to app-based Revolut

European app-based banking outfit Revolut is claiming strong uptake of its business account offering, signing up 16,000 firms since June.

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Forget fintechs, banks need to worry about Alibaba and Amazon

Banks may have seen off the challenge from fintech startups but they now face the far bigger threat of platform giants such as Amazon and Alibaba eating into their margins, warns a new report from consultancy McKinsey.

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Uber launches credit card

Ride-hailing app Uber is pushing further into the financial services sphere, teaming up with Barclaycard US to launch a rewards-heavy Visa credit card.

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Mastercard embeds payments in London smart city app

Mastercard's MasterPass is to be embedded in a London travel app developed by the Mayor's promotional office London & Partners, enabling tourist to make in-app payments for tickets to major attractions.

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Capital One: What we learned about what our chatbot learned

Ken Dodelin, vice president and head of conversational AI products at Capital One reflects on the learnings from a six-month pilot trial of the company's new conversational chatbot Eno, as the interface is rolled out commercially to all customers.

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Mastercard showcases augmented reality shopping

Mastercard and Qualcomm are showcasing an augmented reality shopping experience using smart shopping glasses and iris authentication to make payments.

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Wirex and SBI Holdings team on Japan cryptocurrency payments card

UK-based Wirex has formed a joint venture with fintech investing powerhouse SBI Holdings to launch a cryptocurrency payments card in Japan.

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Mastercard to roll out blockchain API

Mastercard is to open up access to its inhouse blockchain technology platform via an API which will be made available to developers at banks and retailers.

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The Clearing House to issue Mastercard-branded tokens

As it rebuilds its core payment infrastructure to accommodate real-time payments, The Clearing House has entered an arrangement with Mastercard to enable banks to supply and manage tokens for securing mobile payments, remote purchases and Internet-of-things (IoT) transactions.

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Poppy Appeal goes contactless

In an effort to counter the decline in hard cash in consumer wallets, the Royal British Legion is to roll out 200 mobile terminals for people to make a donation to this year's Poppy Appeal with their contactless card.

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First Data blunder reveals BluePay acquisition talks

First Data has come clean about ongoing talks to buy North American payments processor Blue Pay after a draft news release announcing an agreed acquisition and conference call was inadvertently posted on the vendor's Website.

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ATM jackpotting for dummies; Yours for just £3,788

Kaspersky Lab has discovered an ATM jackpotting kit for sale on the Dark Web which provides step-by-step instructions for non-techies to crack open a cash machine.

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Sibos 2017: Tim Berners-Lee pitches W3C payments APIs

Sir Tim Berners-Lee used his appearance at Sibos this morning to pitch the World Wide Web Consortium's efforts to streamline the online checkout experience and make payments more secure.

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ATM overdraft hack helps crooks steal millions from ex-Soviet banks

Hackers have stolen millions of dollars from banks in former Soviet states by breaking into their IT networks to increase overdraft limits on fraudulently opened accounts and then making ATM withdrawals.

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Mastercard opens Indian innovation lab

Mastercard has opened its first innovation lab in India to work side-by-side with the local financial community on future technology breakthroughs in digital payments, data manipulation, financial inclusion and fraud prevention.

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ATM black box attacks soar in Europe

Europe saw a surge in the number of ATM black box attacks - where devices are attached to machines and command cash outs - in the first half of 2017.

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German savings banks to roll out mobile payment service

Germany's savings banks are planning a mass-market roll out of contactless mobile payments technology in 2018.

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Mastercard releases Early Detection System to warn banks of at-risk cards

With card breaches at retailers becoming an everyday occurrence, MasterCard is arming banks with a tool that helps predict which customer accounts are most at risk of fraudulent activity following a third party compromise.

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Curve partners Xero to automate expenses

UK startup Curve is promising to kill the dreaded job of doing expenses, letting users spend from all of their accounts on one card, sending the data straight to Xero accounting software.

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Timex embeds bPay contactless chip into watchstrap

Timex is to release a watch capable of making contactless payments by incorporating the Barclaycard bPay chip into the leather watchstrap.