Latest Cards News: Finextra Research

Anything Visa can do...Mastercard takes time out

Mastercard has followed Visa in suffering an intermittent outage that caused some card payments to be denied overnight.

13 July 2018

Company update/Cards

IBM profiles the huge hidden costs of data breaches

IBM (NYSE: IBM) Security today announced the results of a global study examining the full financial impact of a data breach on a company's bottom line.

13 July 2018

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Japan's Paidy raises $55m for credit card-free online shopping service

Paidy, a Japanese startup that helps people make online purchases without a credit card, has raised $55 million in a Series C funding round led by Itochu Corporation and joined by Goldman Sachs.

12 July 2018

Company update/Cards

Jack Henry migrates 66 clients to new card processing platform

Jack Henry & Associates today announced that 66 financial institutions have migrated to JHA Card Processing Solutions (CPS), its full service and in-house transaction processing platform.

11 July 2018

Company update/Cards

Visa launches loyalty platform in Latin America and the Caribbean

Visa (NYSE:V) today announced the launch of Visa Loyalty Solutions (VLS), an omnichannel digital points redemption platform available to all issuing banks in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and offering consumers more than a quarter of a million redemption options. Visa Loyalty Solutions was co-created by Visa LAC in collaboration with global FinTech and InsurTech company novae.

11 July 2018

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Handelsbanken trials micro contactless cards

Nordic bank Handelsbanken is entering the wearable payments market, trialling a micro contactless card that can be put into a wristband, bracelet, watch strap or keyring.

11 July 2018

Company update/Cards

Restaurant POS vendor Toast raises $115m

Toast, the fastest-growing restaurant management platform in the U.S., today announced $115 million in Series D funding to accelerate investment in research and development, recruit new talent, and expand its market presence.

10 July 2018

Company update/Cards

Prepaid Technologies revamps leadership

Prepaid Technologies, a leading provider of payment and rewards solutions announced multiple leadership changes today. Long-time prepaid industry executive Steve Fussell was hired as president and former president Stephen Faust has been promoted to CEO.

10 July 2018

Company update/Cards

Mastercard and Florida Capital Bank deliver real-time disbursements

Today Mastercard announced that it is partnering with Florida Capital Bank, N.A. to facilitate efficient, near real-time disbursements of funds to all branded debit cards in the U.S. by integrating Mastercard Send.

10 July 2018

Company update/Cards

Brazil's Conductor gets 3D Secure with Tas Group

Conductor, one of Brazil’s largest card processors, has chosen TAS Group’s 3D Secure ACS cardholder authentication solution to help its Issuing customers tackle online fraud.

10 July 2018

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Championing financial inclusion and helping the Unstoppables

Norris Koppel, CEO & Founder, Monese, speaks openly about how his personal experience inspired him to address the issue of people cut off from banking services. Hear how he has grown a successful Fintech to drive financial inclusion

10 July 2018

Company update/Cards

MyPOS offers Faster Payments to customers

myPOS Europe Ltd, a leading card payments provider to small and medium-sized businesses announces its customers can now access Faster Payments in an effort to provide ever quicker and better money transfers.

10 July 2018

Company update/Cards

RiskIQ finds Ticketmaster breach part of massive credit card skimming campaign

RiskIQ, the leader in digital threat management, today revealed that its researchers have discovered that the recent breach of Ticketmaster was not a one-off event as initially reported, but part of a massive digital credit card-skimming campaign by the threat group Magecart affecting over 800 e-commerce sites around the world.

10 July 2018

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Cryptocurrency Visa card startup buys Crypto.com domain

Monaco, the startup behind a cryptocurrency Visa debit card, has rebranded after forking out millions of dollars on the Crypto.com domain name.

06 July 2018

Company update/Cards

Festipay hits the festival circuit in Hungary

Contactless payments at some of Hungary’s largest festivals just got a major upgrade.

05 July 2018

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Mastercard: Biometric payments to take centre stage under PSD2

Mastercard is forecasting a bright future for biometric technology, as new rules on strong customer authentication under PSD2 come into force across Europe.

05 July 2018

Company update/Cards

Sberbank adds auto-repayment of credit debt to mobile app

Sberbank has launched a service that allows clients to set up automatic repayment of credit card debt.

04 July 2018

Company update/Cards

Fime first to support EMV contactless reader and Discover Global Network testing in Japan

FIME’s Japanese laboratory is the first in the country accredited to perform testing in line with the Discover Global Network Contactless Reader specification and the EMV C-6 specification.

04 July 2018

Company update/Cards

Fire.com secures payments service authorisation

fire.com has today announced that it has been authorised to provide new payment services that will change the way businesses and people pay and get paid.

03 July 2018

Finextra TV/Cards

Smart bets in SME banking

Paul Riseborough, Chief Commercial Officer and Martyn Atkinson, Chief Information Officer from Metro Bank (UK) talk at their 2nd tech breakfast event about the issues SME’s face with their finances and the challenges banks have with helping SME’s grow their businesses. They explore what technologies banks should be adopting to give SME’s connection to the right services and where banks are going to partner in this process.

03 July 2018