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News/payments
Marqeta, the global card issuing platform, has today announced its partnership in Australia with leading player in the digital retail finance and payments industry, Zip.
09 September 2021
Bogota-based Addi has raised $75 million in an extension f its Series B funding round led by Greycroft.
08 September 2021
PayPal has struck a deal to buy Japanese buy now, pay later firm Paidy for around $2.7 billion, mainly in cash.
Brazilian digital bank Nubank has acquired Spin Pay, a local firm that supports e-commerce transactions using the country's PIX instant payments platform.
01 September 2021
Buy now, pay later outfit Laybuy is launching an app that lets UK shoppers pay in instalments at some of the world's biggest brands, including Amazon, eBay, Asos and Nike.
The owner of Swedish furniture retail giant Ikea has paid $22.5 million for a minority stake in white label buy now, pay later player Jifiti.
31 August 2021
Amazon has teamed up with Affirm to offer its US customers a buy now, pay later option at the checkout.
30 August 2021
News/startups
Balance, a digital checkout platform for B2B businesses, has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Ribbit Capital with participation from Stripe.
27 August 2021
News/inclusion
Carrier billing outfit Boku has unveiled what it claims is the world's largest mobile payments network, reaching 5.7 billion payment accounts in 90 countries.
18 August 2021
News/security
Fresh from a $200 million funding round earlier this year, Feedzai has acquired behavioural biometric platform Revelock to provide an additional layer of transaction protection as more shoppers - and crooks - move online.
04 August 2021
Banco Santander’s payment fintech, PagoNxt, is launching its merchant payments business in Europe under the Getnet brand.
26 July 2021
News/crypto
PayU is teaming up with mobile-first open-source blockchain payments outfit Celo to launch a new stablecoin option to hundreds of thousands of merchants.
21 July 2021
Facebook Pay is extending its reach outside of the social media behemoth's own platform, enabling online merchants to add the service as a payment option directly on their own sites.
16 July 2021
More than one in two people will use a mobile wallet by 2025, as cash is increasingly displaced, finds a study from mobile payments company, Boku. This equates to an increase of 2.7 to 4.8 billion wallets in use globally in the next four years.
08 July 2021
Big tech firm Google is reported to be planning a push into Japan's financial services market
American Express has expanded its digital receipts feature to give US card members who shop on Amazon extra purchase information about orders with the e-commerce giant.
News/regulation
Wish has been granted a Payments Services License by the Dutch Central Bank, paving the way for the e-commerce giant to process all EU payments on its platform.
07 July 2021
A Beijing-based software firm has been closed down by China's central bank because of its suspected involvement with crypto trading.
06 July 2021
EBAday 2021 has flown by, and the sessions throughout day three of the event served to build on the momentum from day one and two. Another punchy strategic roundtable addressed the need for industry-wide collaboration to drive payments innovation, while two boisterous chatrooms tackled the weighty subjects of Open Banking, CBDCs and stablecoins.
30 June 2021
News/retail
Klarna has picked embedded business finance platform Liberis to help it offer its e-commerce clients revenue-based financing.
29 June 2021
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