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PayPal has agreed to make it easier for customers to pay with their Visa cards in exchange for long-term "fee certainty" from the card scheme.
21 July 2016
UK payment processing firm Worldpay is experiencing ongoing problems issuing payments despite promising to work with clients to resolve the software issue.
20 July 2016
Lloyds Banking Group has become the latest UK high street bank to launch a mentoring service for fintech startups.
18 July 2016
The profound change underway in the payments industry is good news for some of Europe's biggest fintech firms, including Gemalto and Ingenico, which are set to benefit from years of "secular tailwinds", according to research from Citi.
14 July 2016
More than two thirds of Europeans want to use biometrics as a method of payment authentication, with convenience and security the main reason for its popularity, a Visa survey shows.
With PSD2 looming, German regulator Bundeskartellamt has ruled that the country's banking industry is violating competition law by putting up barriers that hinder competing online payments services.
08 July 2016
The prevalence of mobile banking in Europe is soaring, with nearly half of phone owners now managing their finances through their handsets, new research commissioned by ING suggests.
07 July 2016
Apple is extending its payments service to the web, enabling shoppers that use its Safari browser to complete purchases by touching the fingerprint reader on their iPhones.
13 June 2016
Britain's love affair with plastic continues to grow, with rising online and contactless transactions driving spending on debit and credit cards up 10% to £660 billion in 2015.
10 June 2016
A new payment network is aiming to help banks turn compliance with the latest payment services directive into a money-spinning exercise.
07 June 2016
In a move that will affect hundreds of thousands of consumers and thousands of businesses, PayPal says that it is shutting down in Turkey next week after local regulators rejected its license applications.
31 May 2016
Google has moved to make it easier for developers to integrate Android Pay for in-app and web payments with "just a few lines of code".
19 May 2016
Google's Android Pay has launched in the UK, enabling millions of Brits to make contactless instore and in-app payments with their handsets.
18 May 2016
Apple has finally struck deals with Canada's banks to bring its mobile payments services to the country's Visa, MasterCard and Interac cardholders.
10 May 2016
As they increasingly bank online and through their mobiles, many Europeans say that they would leave providers that do not offer up-to-date technology, a survey from Fujitsu shows.
04 May 2016
Turkey has gone live with its own card payment system, dubbed Troy, as it seeks to boost electronic money and usher in a cashless society by 2023.
29 April 2016
Powa founder Dan Wagner has declared himself "bemused" by the failed payment firm's slide into administration, even as details emerge of its massive losses.
18 April 2016
Speaking on the fringes of the Money2020 conference in Copenhagen, Amazon executive Patrick Gauthier revealed that the e-commerce giant is contemplating acquisitions in the payments space as fintech valuations come down to earth.
05 April 2016
Switzerland's five biggest banks are talking to retailers and financial infrastructure provider SIX Group about a joint mobile payments service.
30 March 2016
Square is taking on PayPal and Stripe with a new e-commerce API that enables merchants to process online payments on their own self-hosted, fully developed websites.
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