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News/payments
The new Google Wallet has begun appearing on phones in dozens of countries as the tech giant tries to reboot its mobile payments system.
20 July 2022
The central banks of five major Southeast Asian countries are working to link up their QR code-based payments systems, according to Bloomberg.
Instagram users can now buy products from small businesses using Meta Pay within the app's chat function.
18 July 2022
News/startups
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.
12 July 2022
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.
11 July 2022
Bolt has reached a settlement with one of its largest customers, which sued the check-out payments company over claims of faulty technology.
06 July 2022
News/security
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.
Synch Payments, the mobile payments joint venture set up by Ireland's leading banks, has brought in Italy's Nexi as its technology partner.
30 June 2022
US startup Kasheesh has launched a free digital platform that lets users split payments for online purchases across multiple credit, debit and gift cards.
23 June 2022
London-based mPOS vendor SumUp has raised €590 million in a funding round that values the firm at €8 billion - down from the €20 billion valuation it was seeking early this year.
Bits of Stock, a rewards platform that lets shoppers automatically earn fractional shares, has raised $4.4 million in seed funding from Keen Venture Partners and Yellow Accelerator by Snap.
14 June 2022
Swedish company Juni, a neobank aimed at e-commerce entrepreneurs, has closed on $206 million in Series B and venture debt funding.
09 June 2022
News/regulation
Stripe has signed up Wise as the first user of a new biometric delegated authentication feature for strong customer authentication (SCA) transactions.
08 June 2022
Apple has jumped into the buy now, pay later market, enabling US customers to to split Apple Pay purchases into instalments.
06 June 2022
News/crypto
Dutch startup Fung has raised $2.7 million in pre-seed funding for its mission of unifying crypto and fiat payment rails.
Souteast Asian emebedded finance firm MatchMove has acquired e-commerce specialist Shopmatic in a $200 million deal.
23 May 2022
Google is working with Visa, Mastercard and American Express to bring virtual cards to Chrome and Android.
12 May 2022
Ebury, the Banco Santander-backed provider of corporate banking services to SMEs that trade internationally, has agreed to buy Bexs in a move that expands its international payments offering to Brazil.
Nationwide Building Society says that the introduction of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) rules in March is helping it stop 2000 cases of online card fraud a month.
11 May 2022
Kevin., a Lithuanian-based account-to-account payment startup, has raised $65 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel.
04 May 2022
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