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News/payments
PayPal's $2.2 billion takeover of Swedish mobile payments firm iZettle could lead to higher prices and worse service for UK customers, a Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation has found.
26 November 2018
Amazon is opening up a new front in its battle to dominate the retail world, lining up brick-and-mortar stores to start accepting its mobile payments system, according to the Wall Street Journal.
22 November 2018
A dispute between Mozambique's interbank payments system operator and its IT provider which has led to accusations of "blackmail" has left millions of people unable to use their cards at the point-of-sale or ATMs.
19 November 2018
Barclaycard has joined forces with UK chain Costa Coffee to launch a reusable coffee cup with integrated contactless payments technology that enables users to pay for their caffeine with a wave of their mug.
News/Eftpos
Poynt, the payment terminal startup founded by former Google Wallet boss Osama Bedier, has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round joined by National Australia Bank and US Bancorp-owned Elavon.
13 November 2018
Nordic payment processor Nets is collaborating with Finnish fintech Mash to provide an omni-channel 'pay later' option to shoppers across Scandinavia.
09 November 2018
As Armistice Day approaches, the Royal British Legion has introduced a new fundraising tool, a pub quiz pack that includes joker contactless donation cards that let players make donations.
Hitachi is moving into the merchant acquiring business, buying a 26% stake in SBI Payment Services in India.
29 October 2018
Southeast Asian ride-hailing app Grab is pushing further into payments through the launch of a prepaid Mastercard card.
25 October 2018
News/security
Societe Generale is trialling a payments card with a built in fingerprint reader that enables users to make contactless payments of any amount.
19 October 2018
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
Worldpay is declaring a tipping point for contactless payments in the UK, as tap and pay transactions overtake Chip and Pin for in-store card payments for the first time.
16 October 2018
And now for something completely different - losses due to card fraud at EU payment terminals have fallen to the lowest level since 2005.
10 October 2018
Fashion chain H&M has invested $20 million in Swedish checkout credit outfit Klarna.
08 October 2018
SingTel has launched a cross-border QR code-based mobile payments service that lets people use their phones for purchases in its home market of Singapore and Thailand.
04 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
Hong Kong has joined the faster payments club, launching a system that lets users send money nearly instantly to recipients using a mobile number or email address as an account proxy.
Mastercard and American Express are among the big names to join a $15 million Series A funding round for Divido, a consumer finance platform for retailers, lenders and payment partners.
18 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
Singapore has launched what it claims to be the world's first unified payments QR code, which will be adopted by 27 payment schemes on the island.
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