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News/people
Up to 40% of American Express employees have chosen to go completely virtual under the card scheme's flexible working model.
10 March 2022
News/startups
A new digital banking platform is launching in Italy to help micro enterprises and the self-employed with their administration and financial management.
News/payments
Citi Commercial Cards has selected Marqeta's tokenisation technology to power its global mobile wallet offering.
09 March 2022
The Merchants Payments Coalition is calling on US politicians to block Visa and Mastercard interchange fee hikes that are set to take effect in April.
08 March 2022
Mastercard has joined a $30 million funding round in credit card processing vendor Zeta and signed a five-year go-to-market deal with the startup.
07 March 2022
PayPal and each of the major card schemes have shut down all services in Russia in an escalation of financial sanctions that go beyond just targeted banks.
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
Barclaycard Payments has added Apple Pay support to its Precisionpay Go virtual Visa cards, enabling employees to pay for face-to-face as well as online business expenses.
News/wholesale
Barcelona-based Hubuc has become the latest embedded finance player to raise funding, closing a $10 million seed round co-led by WndrCo and Runa Capital.
24 February 2022
News/crypto
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.
Nomo, the Banco Sabadell-backed fintech platform for the self-employed and SMEs, is adding a current account and virtual card to its offering.
Italian bank BPER has entered exclusive negotiations with local payments processor Nexi for the sale of its merchant payments business.
23 February 2022
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has sold a combined $3.1 billion worth of shares in Visa and Mastercard and bought a $1 billion stake in Brazilian digital lender Nubank.
21 February 2022
Amazon has dropped its threat to stop accepting Visa cards across its global operations after reaching an agreement with the card scheme.
17 February 2022
Siam Commercial Bank has invested $100 million in Indonesian buy now, pay later platform Akulaku.
Closed-loop payment systems are top of the alternative payment product wish list for payment professionals, with account-to-account payments at the point-of-sale running a close second, according to research by regulatory intelligence agency Vixio.
16 February 2022
Tillful, a business credit platform for SMEs, has teamed up with Highnote and Mastercard to launch a credit card.
09 February 2022
Australia's Slyp has experienced a significant show of confidence from the country's big four banks, who have joined a further $25 million funding round in the digital receipt startup.
News/inclusion
Fintech investment company Pell Capital has launched a project that will offer homeless people in the UK access to contactless cards to raise donations and spend vouchers at accredited vendors.
02 February 2022
Trovata, a US startup specialising in automating cash workflows through multi-bank API data aggregation, has scored a distribution agreement with Capital One.
31 January 2022
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