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News/payments
Visa is using the upcoming Fifa World Cup to show off some of its new technology, including face payments and instantly-issued prepaid cards with animated art.
18 November 2022
News/startups
Dapio, a London-based pay-tech turning Android smartphones into card readers without extra hardware, has launched its Tap to Pay app for small businesses and sellers across the UK.
17 November 2022
Royal Bank of Canada is the latest lender to tap into Visa's BNPL technology to offer its credit cardholders the option of paying for purchases in instalments.
14 November 2022
French payments giant Worldline is boosting its presence in Italy through the acquisition of Banco Desio’s merchant acquiring activities for around EUR100 million.
08 November 2022
PayPal and Apple have struck a deal to start accepting each other's payments products within their separate ecosystems.
04 November 2022
Just weeks after completing the sale of its terminal business to Apollo Funds for €2.3 billion, Worldline has moved to acquire a 55% stake in SoftPos.eu, a Warsaw-based fintech that converts Android devices into secure payment terminals.
26 October 2022
BNPL firm Zip has partnered WebBank to launch a physical card as it bids to make inroads into in-store shopping.
News/crypto
Japanese payments giant JCB is embarking on a central bank digital currency pilot with Tokyo merchants.
25 October 2022
News/security
Nordic payments operator Nets and Softpay equipped all 7-Eleven stores across Denmark with emergency tap-to-pay SoftPOS kit the day after the chain's payments and checkout terminals were knocked out by a cyberattack.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has rolled out an app that enables charities to accept digital, contactless donations.
24 October 2022
The European Commission has approved a merger between Nordic mobile payments players MobilePay and Vipps after a third partner, Pivo, pulled out.
21 October 2022
National Australia Bank is entering the mPOS business, launching an app that turns Android phones into contactless card acceptance devices.
18 October 2022
Tyl by NatWest has introduced a new payments terminal and pricing scheme for micro businesses facing up to growing economic hardship.
04 October 2022
The European Central Bank has picked five partners - including CaixaBank and Amazon - to help it develop a digital euro prototype.
16 September 2022
Nearly nine in 10 in-person debit card purchases are now contactless, according to data from Lloyds Bank.
05 September 2022
London-based mPOS unicorn SumUp is expanding into the B2C payments space through the launch of a digital wallet with integrated loyalty scheme.
01 September 2022
Hello Clever, an Australian 'buy-to-earn' startup that gives shoppers real-time cashback, has raised A$4.5 million in seed funding.
24 August 2022
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.
18 August 2022
Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) has unveiled BNZ Pay, a mobile app for retailers that transforms an Android device into a contactless payment terminal.
Azerbaijan-based SmilePay has struck deals with two major food retailers in the country to let shoppers buy their groceries using their faces.
16 August 2022
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