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Amazon and Affirm bring BNPL payments to Canada

Amazon and Affirm are extending their buy now, pay later partnership to Canada, enabling shoppers to pay for their purchases in instalments.

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ECB taps CaixaBank and Amazon for digital euro prototypes

The European Central Bank has picked five partners - including CaixaBank and Amazon - to help it develop a digital euro prototype.

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Indonesian anti-trust agency investigates unfair Google app payments

Indonesian watchdog KPPU is investigating Google for breaching anti-monopoly laws and carrying out unlawful business practices on the Google Play Store.

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Bolt cans $1.5bn Wyre acquisition

Online checkout company Bolt has pulled the plug on its $1.5 billion deal to buy blockchain infrastructure provider Wyre.

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Revolut unveils online checkout feature

Fintech superapp Revolut is taking on PayPal with its own one-click payment checkout feature for online purchases.

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SumUp launches e-wallet app

London-based mPOS unicorn SumUp is expanding into the B2C payments space through the launch of a digital wallet with integrated loyalty scheme.

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Visa tokens overtake physical cards in circulation

Visa has issued its four billionth network token for e-commerce payments, surpassing the number of physical cards it has in circulation worldwide.

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Aussie buy-to-earn startup Hello Clever raises A$4.5m

Hello Clever, an Australian 'buy-to-earn' startup that gives shoppers real-time cashback, has raised A$4.5 million in seed funding.

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Prometeo launches Latin America's first A2A payments platform

Prometeo Open Banking has launched what it claims is the first pan-regional Account-to-Account (A2A) payments offering in Latin America.

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Adyen share tumble on H1 results

Shares in Adyen fell by more than 10% in morning trading as strong first half revenue growth was offset by squeezed profit margins. Separately, the Dutch payments processor has unveiled its own range of in-house designed terminals.

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E-commerce lender Clearco axes 125 jobs

Canadian e-commerce lender Clearco is laying off 125 people - about 25% of its workforce - as it faces up to a slowdown in the sector and the wider economic downturn.

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Charles raises $20m to unlock e-commerce in WhatsApp

Conversational commerce startup Charles has raised $20 million in Series A funding to help European sellers benefit from e-commerce in WhatsApp.

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Google Wallet starts rolling out worldwide

The new Google Wallet has begun appearing on phones in dozens of countries as the tech giant tries to reboot its mobile payments system.

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Southeast Asian countries prep QR code payment interoperability

The central banks of five major Southeast Asian countries are working to link up their QR code-based payments systems, according to Bloomberg.

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Instagram adds payments in chat

Instagram users can now buy products from small businesses using Meta Pay within the app's chat function.

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Qori launches multi-channel pay by bank and pay by crypto tech

French startup Qori has launched, enabling Europeans to pay in store, remotely or online with their bank or crypto wallet without having to download a proprietary app.

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Interac adds backup supplier following Rogers outage

Canadian debit network Interac is adding a backup network provider in the wake of last week's massive outage at Rogers, which left millions of customers unable to make payments.

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Bolt settles suit with customer Authentic Brands Group

Bolt has reached a settlement with one of its largest customers, which sued the check-out payments company over claims of faulty technology.

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Survey finds UK shoppers are frustrated with SCA

More than a third of UK shoppers have been unable to complete an e-commerce transaction because of new strong customer authentication (SCA) rules, according to a survey for Signifyd.

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Bank-backed Irish mobile payments app taps Nexi as tech partner

Synch Payments, the mobile payments joint venture set up by Ireland's leading banks, has brought in Italy's Nexi as its technology partner.