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Fiat-to-crypto payment gateway Alchemy Pay joins forces with Worldpay

Alchemy Pay, the pioneering fiat-crypto payment gateway, has entered into a strategic partnership with Worldpay, the No.1 global acquirer, to amplify its payment channels and elevate its payment capabilities.

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MDP takes Mastercard carbon calcuator to market in Egypt

Mastercard has partnered with MDP to launch the first Carbon Calculator in Egypt, enabling customers to understand and consider the environmental impact of their purchases.

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US Bank hit with multi-million dollar fines over prepaid card programme for the unemployed

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today assessed a $15 million civil money penalty against U.S. Bank, National Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, for violations of law relating to the bank’s administration of a prepaid card program to distribute public unemployment insurance benefit payments.

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Changing the future of credit with agile engineering

In this episode of Unplugged, Harry Jell, CTO at Yonder, talks with Andrew Smith from RTGS.global, about building a successful credit card company in today’s financial climate. They discuss the seamless use of merchant data for user rewards, the importance of AWS and Kubernetes for scalability, and explore potential avenues to enrich transaction data.

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Yonder goes live with GoCardless for Variable Recurring Payments

Yonder, the modern rewards credit card, has extended its relationship with GoCardless, the bank payment company, by adding Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) alongside the Direct Debit functionality it uses already.

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Fingerprints supports Thales’s fourth-generation biometric payment card

Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints™) has been deeply involved in the development of the new generation of Thales Gemalto biometric payment card, which is ready for global volume mass deployment.

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JCB commences largest contactless deployment in the UK to date

JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., today announced an extension of its collaboration with global financial technology leader FIS (NYSE: FIS) and its merchant solutions business, Worldpay from FIS, to enable JCB Contactless for its UK merchants in the largest JCB contactless deployment in the UK to date.

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Visa expands Fintech Fast Track programme

Visa is expanding its North America Fintech Fast Track programme beyond card issuance to connect members to its real-time money movement platform.

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Apple, Visa and Mastercard face anti-trust class action lawsuit

Apple, Visa and Mastercard are facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that they conspired to suppress competition in the market for point-of-sale payment card services.

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Futurebank and Paymentology join forces for virtual card issuance

Open banking and Embedded Finance platform, FutureBank, has announced a partnership with leading global issuer-processor, Paymentology, to provide banks and fintechs with streamlined integration to modern card issuing and processing technology, enabling instant issuance of virtual cards.

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Visa bids to combat token fraud

Visa (NYSE: V), a global leader in payments, today announced the commercial launch of Visa Provisioning Intelligence (VPI), an AI-based product designed to combat token fraud at its source.

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Trust Bank and Thales issue Singapore’s first Ocean Plastic card

Trust launched on 1 September 2022 as Singapore’s first digitally native bank.

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Citizens rolls out sustainably manufactured Mastercard debit and ATM cards

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG) today announced the full rollout of Citizens Bank, N.A.’s (“Citizens”) new sustainably manufactured Mastercard Debit and ATM Card, the latest product in a collaborative partnership with its exclusive partner, Mastercard.

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Affirm teams with Blackhawk Network on gift card purchases

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, and Blackhawk Network (BHN) - the leading distributor of digital gift cards in the U.S. - have partnered to bring consumers even more choice and flexibility for purchasing gift cards.

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UK payments watchdog proposes cap on interchange fees

The Payment Systems Regulator is propsing to cap cross-border interchange fees on credit and debit cards to protect UK businesses from rising costs.

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JCB to begin Phase 2 trials of offline CBDC

Japanese card issuer JCB is moving to Phase 2 of a pilot to trial offline P2P payments for a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

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Motive acquires controlling stake in Splitit Payments

Private equity firm Motive Partners has acquired a controlling stake in Australian-listed BNPL outfit Splitit Payments.

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Marqeta names Alan Carlisle as chief compliance officer

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), the global modern card issuing platform that enables embedded finance capabilities for the world’s innovators, today announced the appointment of Alan Carlisle as its Chief Compliance Officer (CCO).

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Entersekt acquires Modirum 3-D Secure software business

Entersekt, the financial authentication company, today announced it has acquired the Modirum 3-D Secure software business from Modirum, a digital payment security provider.

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Paymentology hires former Marqeta exec Jeff Parker as CEO

Global card issuer and processor Paymentology has hired Jeff Parker, the former SVP and managing director of Marqueta, as its new CEO.