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Paysend closes $20 million funding round

Paysend, the business targeting a global payments revolution, has closed a $20 million funding round, led by investment firm MARCorp Financial.

03 July 2018

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Wirecard to provide payment priocessing for Telenor Bulgaria

Wirecard, the leading innovation driver of digital financial technology, and Telenor, a leading telecommunication operator in Bulgaria with over 3.1 million active subscribers, launched processing services to offer customers of Telenor Bulgaria an increased range of digital payment methods.

03 July 2018

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CashFlows provides BIN Sponsorship services through Open Payments Cloud

CashFlows today announced it will help to break down barriers to payment innovation by offering BIN sponsorship services through the ground-breaking Open Payments Cloud (OPC).

03 July 2018

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Former Vodafone man Walz joins Concardis as chief sales officer

The former Managing Director of Retail Sales of Vodafone Germany, Dr Peter Walz, will assume the role of Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of Concardis Payment Group from 15 July 2018.

02 July 2018

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Fime personalization validation tool accredited by UnionPay

FIME’s personalization validation tool (PVT) has been qualified by UnionPay to deliver PVT testing for its domestic and international markets.

02 July 2018

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Milan subway goes contactless

SIA has created the digital platform that enables passengers to pay for tickets in ATM’s urban and extra-urban underground network directly at the turnstiles in a simple, fast and secure manner using MasterCard and Visa contactless cards.

29 June 2018

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Cash machine fee row heats up

Consumer champion Which? is calling for regulatory intervention to halt the closure of cash machines across the UK as banks and convenience stores re-assess the commercial viability of their networks under a new charging model which takes effect next week.

29 June 2018

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Visa and Mastercard near $6.5bn interchange settlement - WSJ

Visa, Mastercard and some of America's biggest banks look set to pay merchants around $6.5 billion to settle a long-running battle over interchange fees, according to the Wall Street Journal.

28 June 2018

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Ticketmaster confirms data breach three months after warning from banks

Ticketmaster has gone public on a data breach affecting the personal and payment card details of 40,000 customers, despite being warned about suspicious activity on customer cards back in April.

28 June 2018

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Indian ATM industry lobby says banks should bear the cost of upgrading machines to meet RBI rules

The Confederation of ATM Industry (CATMi), while welcoming the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) notification dated 21st June mandating control measures for ATMs, has proposed that the banks should bear the additional expenses on security for all ATMs branded in bank’s name.

27 June 2018

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Amazon chooses AmEx for small business credit card

American Express (NYSE: AXP) today announced plans to launch a new cobranded Amazon credit card for small businesses in the U.S.

27 June 2018

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Making payments fraud less attractive to fraudsters

Liam Cooney, Vice President, Global Head of Market Development & Sales, Vocalink Analytics (a Mastercard company), talks at EBAday 2018 about the key trends in payments fraud , how fraudsters are taking advantage of the global adoption of real-time payments and what strategies and techniques can be used to combat these threats.

26 June 2018

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Five Degrees and BillPro launch cross-border digital banking services

Five Degrees, the Dutch Fintech in digital banking software, and BillPro, a leading international provider of payment solutions for businesses launches a digital cross-border banking offer in Europe.

26 June 2018

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IN2Retail selects CashFlows to support ATM roll-out in the Netherlands and Ireland

CashFlows today announced that it has been selected by IN2Retail, a fast growing provider of ATM payment solutions, to provide BIN sponsorship for its ATM estate in the Netherlands and Ireland.

26 June 2018

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Picture this: Instagram Payments

Roger Niederer, head merchant services of SIX Payment Services runs the rule over Instagram's forthcoming in-app payments service.

26 June 2018

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Venmo launches debit card

PayPal's hugely popular P2P payments app Venmo is looking to conquer the high street through the introduction of a Mastercard debit card.

25 June 2018

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One-in-four EU merchants have experienced data theft

1 in 4 European merchants in the retail, travel and hospitality, and digital goods sector (26 percent) has experienced data theft and the majority (61 percent) believe they are at greater risk of a data security breach today than they were a year ago, according to new benchmark data from the 2018 Global Payments Insight Survey: Merchants published by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) and Ovum.

25 June 2018

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Mobeewave signs National Bank of Canada for mobile POS

National Bank is proud to announce that its SME clients can now use National Bank Easy Pay (“Easy Pay”), a mobile point-of-sale solution powered by Montreal fintech Mobeewave.

25 June 2018

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RBI tires of slow progress by banks in switching off XP-based ATMs

The Reserve Bank of India has given the nation's banks a one-year deadline to migrate ATMs away from the Microsoft XP operating system, more than five years after support for the O/S was switched off by the Redmond-based tech giant.

25 June 2018

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National Bank launches mPOS offering

National Bank is proud to announce that its SME clients can now use National Bank Easy Pay ("Easy Pay"), a mobile point-of-sale solution powered by Montreal fintech Mobeewave.

22 June 2018