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News/people
UK digital challenger bank Monzo has hired former Cash App global product head Conor Walsh to lead a renewed push into the US market.
04 October 2023
News/payments
PayPal users can now add their credit and debit cards to the Apple Wallet to make payments instore, online and in-app.
News/retail
Experian has launched its own digital checking account and debit card designed to help Americans build their credit without incurring debt.
03 October 2023
All-in-one card app Curve has added integration with PayPal to its suite of payment options.
28 September 2023
Apple is soft launching a new iPhone Wallet app that is integrated with UK's open banking framework.
Varo Bank has announced a new free instant payments feature called Varo for Everyone that will allow those with a US debit card to make quick and easy money transfers.
22 September 2023
News/startups
Curve has secured an additional £58 million in its series C round, taking the round’s total funding to over £133 million.
21 September 2023
Ant Group has introduced 10 mobile wallets already used across Asia to the Chinese mainland through the Alipay+ in China (A+China) program. The move comes in preparation for the Hangzhou Asian Games.
19 September 2023
Revolut reports that it has seen a large increase in the number of 18 to 24 year old users receiving money from abroad.
18 September 2023
UK Finance’s Payments Markets Report shows that during 2022, 50% of all payments in the UK were made using debit cards.
14 September 2023
Monzo has unveiled an investments feature, allowing the UK digital bank's customers to put as little as £1 into a choice of multi-asset funds.
12 September 2023
News/security
Cleafy, an Italian provider of fraud prevention technology for digital banking, has raised €10 million in funding led by United Ventures through the fund UV T-Growth.
Ant Group announced that it has begun consumer and professional app testing for a finance-specific artificial intelligence (AI) model at the Inclusion Conference on the Bund in Shanghai this week.
08 September 2023
JPMorgan Chase has increased its stake in Brazilian digital bank C6 from 40% to 46%. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
30 August 2023
Startups in Africa's fintech market have secured more than $2.7bn in venture capital (VC) funding in the last two years, according to a recently released report.
BMO Commercial Bank has joined forces with Mastercard and Extend to give clients the power to create and push virtual cards to their employees' mobile wallets.
29 August 2023
News/inclusion
Kenyan telco Safaricom has launched its ground-breaking M-Pesa mobile money service in Ethiopia.
28 August 2023
News/devops
Digital payments innovation in different regions of the world is being spurred on by Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) adoption, as nations experiment with new payments options that can be more inclusive and dynamic. 130 countries are currently exploring the possibilities with CBDC adoption, which allows for digital money to be supported and used publicly alongside cash whilst supported by the nation’s central bank.
25 August 2023
Telco giant Orange has agreed to sell its digital banking operations in Romania to local player Alpha Bank. Financial terms were not disclosed.
24 August 2023
News/regulation
Anglo-Turkish fintech Colendi has secured regulatory approval to launch Turkey’s first digital deposit bank.
22 August 2023
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