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News/people
Mastercard is to pay $26 million to settle accusations that for years it underpaid famale, black and hispanic employees.
16 January 2025
News/retail
Goldman Sachs has led a C$70 million Series B funding round for Canadian business finance platform Float Financial.
13 January 2025
News/regulation
The European Court of Auditors has raised concerns over how the EU goes about price interventions in the card market and its approach to open banking data sharing.
10 January 2025
News/payments
Visa has teamed up with UAE-based spend management specialist Qashio on a business-to-business travel payments offering.
08 January 2025
While the use of digital payments continues to rise in the euro area, cash is still responsible for more than half of all point-of-sale transactions, according to a European Central Bank study.
06 January 2025
Chargeback management firm Justt has secured a $30 million Series C round to fund global expansion.
20 December 2024
New Zealand's Commerce Commission has issued a draft decision to reduce fees paid by Kiwi businesses for accepting Visa and Mastercard payments.
19 December 2024
The Payment Systems Regulator is pushing ahead with plans to introduce a price cap on the fees Visa and Mastercard charge UK merchants when European shoppers make online purchases.
13 December 2024
In this preview of a Mastercard report being released in early 2025, leaders at the card processer say that generative AI is emerging as critical to boosting fraud protection rates by as much as 300%.
Swedish spend management fintech Mynt has raised a €22 million Series B funding round at a significantly increased valuation of approximately €175 million.
11 December 2024
Cash usage rose for the second time in a year in the UK as consumers resorted to handing over notes and coins at the till to better aid budgeting.
05 December 2024
News/crypto
After securing a principal licence with Mastercard, Crypto.com customers will now be able to use their card at over 150 million in-store and online locations worldwide.
04 December 2024
It has been reported that claimants had been seeking £10 billion in compensation for alleged overcharging over several years.
News/sustainable
La Banque Postale, in collaboration with WWF France, is the first traditional bank in France to launch an impact bank card where all deposits associated with the card will be used to finance the energy renovation of housing.
03 December 2024
Embedded credit card platform Cardless has raised $30 million in growth equity funding.
27 November 2024
News/inclusion
Canadian startup Beacon has opened the waitlist for its purpose-built digital wallet for immigrants moving to the country.
20 November 2024
While the decline in cash use contnues, new research from NatWest demonstrates its enduring versatility, with three quarters of UK consumers still carrying paper money and coins in case of emergencies.
Barclays Bank is understood to be in discussions with Brookfield Asset Management about giving up 80% of its merchant acquiring arm.
18 November 2024
The UK Government has published its National Payments Vision (NPV), vowing to cut through the "regulatory congestion" facing the sector to deliver a world-leading ecosystem.
15 November 2024
Finextra spoke to co-founder Charles O’Neil and CMO Dan Walsh, of new financial literacy app, Sunshine+Kittens, which is set to launch early next year.
14 November 2024
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