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Company update/retail
A quarter of the UK (25%) believe the high street bank will be ‘dead’ in five years, according to new research conducted by Contis, the banking and payments solution provider.
03 June 2019
Company update/Cards
The trend of card payment at the point of sale (POS) continues in Germany: Today more than half (52%) of customers prefer to pay cashless. This development towards digital payment offers significant potential for increases in sales and efficiency as well as cost reduction for small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).
News/Cards
The world's biggest card issuer, China UnionPay, has stepped up its European ambitions after striking a deal with a UK back-office startup, Tribe Payments, that will see it offer debit and credit cards in Europe.
FOMO Pay, an award-winning integrated payment solution provider to merchants in Singapore and across the region, and Discover Global Network, announced a partnership to allow Discover Global Network cardholders the ability to use their cards at FOMO Pay’s merchants around the world.
Company update/payments
Mastercard today announced the appointment of Sasha Krstic as president for the company’s Canadian operations.
30 May 2019
The new design helps customers easily and quickly identify the correct way a card should be inserted into a cash machine.
News/regulation
The UK's Raphaels Bank has been fined £1.89 million for outsourcing failures which left thousands of customers unable to use their payment cards on Christmas Eve 2015.
ChargeAfter, a global network that enables retailers to match their consumers with credit and financing offers, raised $8M in its Series A funding round.
29 May 2019
Payments Canada is seeking feedback on its consultation paper for a new rule, as part of its point-of-service payment rules framework, to enable a broader range of point-of-service debit card acceptance.
Russian customers are noticeably more often using contactless payment methods to pay for purchases: the number of payments made with smartphones has increased nearly threefold over the past year.
UOB and Mastercard today announced the launch of the UOB Regal Business Metal Card, Asia Pacific’s first World Elite Mastercard Business metal card designed for smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
28 May 2019
Visa Inc. announced today that Vasant Prabhu, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee, will take on the added title of Vice Chairman for the global payments technology company.
27 May 2019
News/startups
Zero Financial, a US startup that offers a checking account and rewards credit card that operates like a debit card, has closed a $20 million Series A financing round, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
24 May 2019
New York commuters will soon be able to skip the long lines to buy or reload their MetroCards with the roll out of a new 'tap and pay' option on subways and bus routes at the end of the month.
23 May 2019
Secure Trading and acquiring.com have announced today that they have begun life in the cryptocurrency vertical after being chosen to provide payment gateway and merchant acquiring solutions for CoinLoan, a peer-to-peer lending platform for crypto-asset-backed loans.
News/payments
Canadian debit network Interac has teamed up with Mastercard to enable users of its e-Transfer P2P payments service send money to bank accounts around the world.
Bank of America Merchant Services, a leader in payments, eCommerce and security solutions, announces that it has been chosen by Sezzle to be their digital card processor for the rapidly growing fintech company and its clients.
22 May 2019
Thyngs is teaming up with CDS Global to facilitate contactless payments for magazine subscriptions in the UK and Australia.
Marqeta has raised $260 million in a Series E funding round led by Coatue Management, valuing the open API card issuing and processing platform at nearly $2 billion.
Auriga, a leading European supplier of software and technology solutions for the banking industry, today announces Niccolò Garzelli as its new Senior Vice President, Sales.
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