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Company update/payments

Google sunsets Payment Request API

The Payment Request API is a web standard to make it easier for web developers to build low-friction and secure payment flows.

03 February 2020

Company update/Cards

FCA rounds on credit card firms over customers in persistent debt

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to credit card firms telling them to review their approach to borrowers who are stuck in persistent debt, where they are paying more in interest, fees and charges than they are paying of their balance.

03 February 2020

News/payments

Worldline agrees EUR7.8 billion deal to acquire Ingenico

Worldline is to acquire French peer Ingenico for EUR7.8 billion, creating a European payments powerhouse and the fourth-largest player in payment services worldwide.

03 February 2020

News/payments

Digital payments overtake cash in Russia

For the first time, in the fourth quarter of last year Russians made more payments digitally than with cash, according to analysis from Sberbank.

03 February 2020

News/security

Mastercard invests in online and offline identity startup Trust Stamp

Mastercard has made a strategic investment in AI-generated identity authentication company Trust Stamp.

31 January 2020

Company update/Cards

JCB seals merchant acquiring deal with China's Oceanpayment

JCB International Co., Ltd. ("JCBI"), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., Japan's only international payment brand, and Oceanpayment Co., Ltd., China's leading cross-border payment brand, announced that they signed a License Agreement to start JCB merchant acquiring business.

31 January 2020

News/Cards

Nationwide trials contactless posters for charity donations

Nationwide Building Society is trialling a "smart window poster" that people can tap with their contactless cards to make donations to a homeless charity.

31 January 2020

News/Cards

Canada updates debit rules to enable public transit payments

Payments Canada is bringing in a rule designed to enable broader point-of-sale debit card acceptance, paving the way for people to use their plastic for, among other things, public transit fares.

30 January 2020

Company update/Cards

MeaWallet to deliver merchant tokenization in Italy via Axepta BNP Paribas

MeaWallet and Axepta BNP Paribas has entered into an agreement to deliver Merchant Tokenization to the Italian market.

30 January 2020

Company update/Cards

Pleo upgrades from prepaid cards to credit cards

Pleo is evolving – and perhaps the most important change is our new cards.

30 January 2020

News/crime

30 million cards from Wawa breach turn up for sale on dark web

The payment card details of more than 30 million Americans, believed to have been stolen in a data breach at convenience store chain Wawa, have been put up for sale on the dark web.

30 January 2020

Company update/Cards

I2C brings Apple Pay to Najm cardholders in Middle East

I2C Inc., a leading provider of digital payment and open banking technology, together with Najm, a provider of financial solutions, today introduce Apple Pay to Najm cardholders in the Middle East. Apple Pay is transforming payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay.

29 January 2020

Company update/Cards

Three French fintechs hook up with Visa

Visa announced it has signed an agreement to become the preferred payment partner of three successful and fast growing Fintechs in France: Lydia, Lunchr and manager.one.

28 January 2020

Company update/payments

SplitIt teams up with Stripe

SplitIt, a global payment technology solution that enables no-fee installments on credit card purchases, has announced a partnership with Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet.

28 January 2020

Company update/Cards

Apple Pay coming to Curve customers

Curve, the Over-The-Top banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, today brings its customers Apple Pay, which is transforming payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay.

28 January 2020

Company update/Cards