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News/security
British Airways is warning that another 185,000 customers may have had their payment card details stolen in a data breach.
25 October 2018
News/E-commerce
Southeast Asian ride-hailing app Grab is pushing further into payments through the launch of a prepaid Mastercard card.
The payments industry remains one of the brightest spots on the financial services landscape, according to a report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Swift, which predicts global revenue to grow by more than $1 trillion by 2027.
18 October 2018
Fashion chain H&M has invested $20 million in Swedish checkout credit outfit Klarna.
08 October 2018
News/payments
InnoCells, the innovation hub of Banco Sabadell, has acquired Spanish online payments platform PayTPV. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
03 October 2018
Payments outfit Stripe is now worth $20 billion after closing a $245 million funding round led by Tiger Global Management.
26 September 2018
Stripe is going after the high street, launching its own point-of-sale payments terminal package targeted at online retailers making the jump to offline.
17 September 2018
Fintech unicorn Klarna is buying the retail financing arm of merchant bank Close Brothers to strengthen its position in the UK market.
14 September 2018
Google and Mastercard struck a secret deal that used card transaction data to let some US merchants see when online ads led to sales at physical stores, according to Bloomberg.
31 August 2018
UK-based Ebury has become the first fintech to be a full and active participant on gpi, Swift's cross-border payments scheme.
30 August 2018
Paystack, Nigeria's answer to Stripe, has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by Stripe and joined by Visa, Tencent and Y Combinator.
28 August 2018
Japanese multinational SoftBank, one of the most prolific fintech investors, is set to spend $100m on a joint venture with Chinese digital insurer ZhongAn Online.
Alternative payment methods such as mobile wallets now account for just over half of ecommerce transaction value in Asia Pacific, according to research from GlobalData.
14 August 2018
Italian debit network Bancomat has teamed up with SIA to bring mobile money services to its millions of cardholders.
31 July 2018
Turkey's İşbank is to provide local merchants with access to five new overseas markets by switching on alternative payment options with PPRO Group.
26 July 2018
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is giving customers a new way to spend their virtual cash by offering direct withdrawals into popular gift cards at major retailers.
25 July 2018
DBS continues to take advantage of new rules that let Singapore's banks move into non-financial sectors, launching an online property marketplace.
Singapore's OCBC Bank has opened its first e-commerce marketplace, 'mumstruly', offering a suite of products and educational features for mums-to-be and young mothers with small children.
18 July 2018
Lemon Way, a Paris-based payment processor for e-commerce marketplaces, has raised EUR10 million from Breega Capital and SpeedInvest to further its plans for expansion across Europe.
17 July 2018
London's PPRO Group has received a $50 million boost in a funding round led by PayPal, with participation from Citi Ventures and return investor HPE Growth Capital.
16 July 2018
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