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NatWest has partnered with Silicon Valley start up SpendLabs to develop a new app to help businesses digitally manage company spending.
23 March 2018
Bank of America customers can now add credit and debit cards to their PayPal accounts directly from the lender's mobile app.
21 March 2018
BBVA is testing a facial recognition system at its inhouse cafetaria that is capable of recognising users and their orders and charging their cards as part of a strategy to render checkouts and payments 'invisible'.
19 March 2018
UK consumers lost £236 million to authorised push payment scams in 2017, the first year that Britain's banks have reported data on the fraudulent activity, in which bank customers are duped into transferring cash to criminal accounts.
15 March 2018
With Brits increasingly turning to electronic payments, the UK government has raised the possibility of ditching 1p and 2p coins and even £50 notes.
14 March 2018
US bank Capital One is bidding to make online shopping safer through a new feature within its Eno chatbot that lets customers use virtual card numbers for ecommerce purchases.
12 March 2018
Saudi Arabia's Riyad Bank is getting into the wearables market, launching a contactless bracelet and stickers for cell phones.
Sydneysiders hopping on and off the city's busy commuter ferries and light rail services can now pass through the turnstiles with a tap of their payment cards and smartphones.
Having just raised $20 million in a sold-out token sale, British blockchain-based banking platform Babb has set its sights on opening its first bank accounts before the end of the year.
08 March 2018
Furthering its ambitions to displace cash in emerging markets, Mastercard has acquired mobile payments technology company Oltio from South Africa's Standard Bank.
06 March 2018
Innovations in technology and practitioner insights into payment trends will top the agenda at EBAday 2018, Europe's leading payments and transaction banking conference, which is being staged this year at the ICM-Internationales Congress Centre in Munich.
02 March 2018
Russian telco MegaFon is to embed a virtual card from Mastercard into its mobile phone accounts to enable subscribers to pay for goods and services using Apple and Samsung handsets.
28 February 2018
Barclaycard is inviting customers of high street chain Prezzo to 'Dine & Dash' in consumer trials of a new app that enables diners to bypass the bill paying process in restaurants.
27 February 2018
Customers of BB&T and TD Bank have had a frustrating few days, with tech gremlins leaving many unable to access their mobile and online accounts and use ATMs.
23 February 2018
The overwhelming popularity of contactless cards is peaking shopper interest in new form factors, as fresh research from Mastercard suggests that one-quarter of Europeans expect to start using tap-and-go payments with a smartwatch, bracelet, keyring or other forms of wearable payments.
22 February 2018
Greenlight Financial Technology, the startup behind an app and debit card for kids and college students, has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round joined by SunTrust Bank, Ally Financial and the Amazon Alexa Fund.
21 February 2018
Germany's Degussa Bank is to use a white-labeled direct API-based connection to local fintech startup Giromatch to provide clients with faster loan decisions and flexible re-payment terms.
Digital currency exchange Coinbase has blamed bank and credit card company meddling for a recent spate of erroneous charges against customer accounts, an allegation rejected by Visa.
16 February 2018
European Central Bank executive board member Yves Mersch has given a spirited defence of cash, praising its ability to facilitate privacy, equality and security, insisting there is "no viable alternative" to the humble euro banknote.
15 February 2018
Visa has agreed a £142 million deal to buy Fraedom, an SaaS technology firm that provides payments and transaction management tools to banks and their corporate customers.
09 February 2018
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