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News/startups
Nate, an AI-based online shopping tool that centralises buys onto a single platform, has raised $38 million in a series A funding round led by Renegade Partners.
17 June 2021
News/people
Online payments firm Checkout.com has acquired Estonian software development firm Icefire, adding 110 engineers to its team. Financial terms were not disclosed.
16 June 2021
News/payments
Brazilian cross-border commerce platform Ebanx has secured a $400 million investment from Advent International, with an additional commitment of $30 million to the firm's planned IPO in the US.
15 June 2021
News/security
Visa has invested in LoginID, the startup behind a series of APIs and SDKs that make it easy for firms to integrate Fido-certified biometric authentication steps into their sites and apps.
02 June 2021
E-commerce fraud prevention company Forter has hit a $3 billion valuation after raising $300 million in a Series F funding round led by Tiger Global Management.
26 May 2021
News/retail
The UK arm of eBay is launching a programme to offer loans to the 300,000 small businesses that sell on its platform.
12 May 2021
Revolut continues to build out its product suite, adding a browser extension that helps customers to get discounts at the checkout.
11 May 2021
Barclays has identified payments as a key growth opportunity worth £900 million over three years thank to areas such as merchant acquiring and the BNPL market.
30 April 2021
Barclays US is joining forces with fintech firm Amount to offer merchants a white label point-of-sale buy now, pay later financing service.
28 April 2021
Research by Solarisbank and the Handelsblatt Research Institute has found considerable conversion potential for e-commerce providers to offer financial services in Germany, confirming the significant opportunity embedded finance may hold across Europe.
26 April 2021
BNPL giant Affirm has agreed to buy online returns and post-purchase payments player Returnly for about $300 million in cash and equity.
22 April 2021
Checkout.com has led a $110 million investment round in Saudi Arabian buy now, pay later startup Tamara.
Russian consumers are to get their first taste of the buy now, pay later phenomenon sweeping neighbouring European markets, courtesy of a new product from digital bank Tinkoff.
Japanese buy now, pay later (BNPL) outfit Paidy has raised US$120 million in a Series D funding round.
01 April 2021
Australian BNPL giant Afterpay is stepping up its assault on in-store payments through the introduction of a contactless virtual card offering.
30 March 2021
News/crypto
PayPal customers in the US can now pay at millions of online merchants around the world with bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum or bitcoin cash.
Visa is set to take advantage of Brexit to raise interchange fees on cross-border transactions between the UK and EU, according to the Financial Times. The move comes as the payments giant faces an investigation by the US Justice Department over possible anticompetitive practices in debit card transaction routing.
19 March 2021
JPMorgan Chase is finally killing off its Chase Pay digital wallet technology, removing the payment method from all merchant apps and websites by the end of the month.
09 March 2021
Lithuanian payments startup kevin. has released a novel product for merchants that switches customers from card payments to account-to-account (A2A) payments at the checkout.
03 March 2021
News/predictions
Global investment in fintech fell significantly in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic hit but picked up significantly in the second half of the year, according to KPMG, which expects a strong 2021 for the sector.
26 February 2021
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