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News/identity
Biometric identity authentication firm FinGo has unveiled what it claims is the world's first vein ID-enabled vending machine, where customers can pay and prove their age for alcohol purchases through a scan of their finger.
28 April 2022
News/payments
Asian omnichannel buy now, pay later platform hoolah has teamed up with no-code payments automation platform Primer to make it easy for merchants in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong to integrate BNPL into their systems.
22 April 2022
Digital bank Quontic has unveiled the US market's first ever contactless payments ring that customers can link to their checking accounts.
14 April 2022
Some of the banks behind Zelle want to take the American P2P payments service to the checkout, taking on Visa and Mastercard, according to the Wall Street Journal.
07 April 2022
News/crypto
Worldpay is set to offer merchants the ability to receive settlement directly in Circle's stablecoin USDC.
Visa is working with consumer authentication service PopID to bring facial verification payments to the Middle East.
06 April 2022
Dapio, a UK outfit that helps businesses accept contactless payments on their Android devices, has raised $3.4 million in a round co-led by African paymentts behemoth Flutterwave and Techstars.
31 March 2022
Australian merchant payments group DataMesh has secured $12m in a pre-Series A funding round, including new investor NAB Ventures.
30 March 2022
Customers at six 7-Eleven stores in Japan can now make contactless payments using a holographic screen projected from the self-checkout terminal.
16 March 2022
News/startups
Australian business banking startup Zeller has hit a A$1 billion valuation thanks to a A$100 million Series B funding round led by Headline.
02 March 2022
CIBC is to invest in Pollinate, a merchant acquiring startup founded by former Monitise chief Alastair Lukies, and to roll out its Tyl payment terminals across canada.
28 February 2022
Crypto exchange and mobile banking platform hi has teamed up with BaaS player Contis on a debit card that lets shoppers pay with their digital assets at over 60 million merchants.
24 February 2022
Worldline has reached a deal with Apollo Funds to sell its Terminals, Solutions & Services (TSS) business for up to €2.3 billion.
21 February 2022
Worldline is on the verge of selling its point-of-sale terminal business to Apollo Global Management for $2.3 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.
11 February 2022
Apple is working on an update that will transform its iPhone into a payment terminal, enabling users to accept payments with the tap of a card.
27 January 2022
UniCredit Bank is to start offering its merchant customers technology from Nexi that lets them use their mobile phones as payments terminals.
24 January 2022
EBA Clearing will upgrade its Step2 pan-European mass payment system later this year to process Sepa transactions around the clock, seven days a week, and to provide settlement results to participating banks in minutes.
18 January 2022
Riding the BNPL wave, Mastercard-backed Indian merchant commerce platform Pine Labs has picked up a fresh $20 million investment from the country's largest commercial bank, the State Bank of India (SBI).
04 January 2022
UK-based buy now, pay later provider Butter is bidding to put a nail in the coffin of the credit card with the launch of its own BNPL card.
07 December 2021
News/inclusion
Westpac is replacing tens of thousands of POS terminals with Android-based devices that use colour contrasts, magnification and audio to assist blind and low vision customers.
02 December 2021
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