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News/startups
Upgrade, the lending platform launched by former LendingClub Chief Renaud Laplanche, has closed a $105 million Series E round at a $3.325 billion pre-money valuation.
11 August 2021
News/payments
HSBC UK has teamed up with Alzheimer’s Society to design a new range of cards with features that will support people with dementia, as well as visual impairments, learning difficulties and dyslexia.
News/sustainable
Bank of Queensland has become the first Australian bank to issue debit cards made from recycled plastic.
News/crypto
Venmo credit card users can now automatically buy cryptocurrency using the cashback they earn on purchases.
10 August 2021
Kroo, a UK startup building a "social" bank, has raised £17.7 million in Series A funding round led by tech entrepreneur Rudy Karson.
Canada's Scotiabank is converting credit card repayments into buy now, pay later plans, with the option to pay off debt in three, six or 12-month fixed instalment payments.
BigPay, the fintech arm of airline AirAsia, has secured an investment of up to US$100 million from South Korea's SK Group.
06 August 2021
Digital identity firm GlobaliD has teamed up with digital currency outfit Uphold on a Mastercard debit card that gives users cashback in the form of XRP.
05 August 2021
Italian payments processor Nexi has signed an MoU to acquire a 51% stake in Alpha Bank's merchant acquiring business.
04 August 2021
News/inclusion
Nationwide Building Society has begun issuing ‘dot and notch’ embossed and recycled bank cards that are certified by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).
Visa is jumping into the BNPL market, rolling out APIs that let its clients offer instalment payment products.
28 July 2021
Intuit is looking to crash into Square's core business with the launch of a handheld card reader for small businesses customers of QuickBooks.
26 July 2021
Barclaycard has teamed up with Visa to give UK shoppers automatic cashback when spending on credit cards at a host of high street and digital retailers.
Barclaycard Payments has agreed to join Mastercard's multi-rail, account-to-account Track Business Payment Services operation, providing a new range of functionality for business customers.
22 July 2021
News/retail
Australian buy now, pay later firm Afterpay is diversifying through the launch of a 'money and lifestyle' app.
21 July 2021
Mastercard is using the USDC stablecoin to make it easier for people to spend their cryptocurrency with its cards.
20 July 2021
Discover is investing $30 million in buy now, pay later startup Sezzle as part of an agreement that also sees the card firm launch a BNPL service on its network.
15 July 2021
News/regulation
The Reserve Bank of India has told Mastercard to stop onboarding all new credit, debit and prepaid card customers in the country, accusing the firm of violating data storage rules.
14 July 2021
More than one in two people will use a mobile wallet by 2025, as cash is increasingly displaced, finds a study from mobile payments company, Boku. This equates to an increase of 2.7 to 4.8 billion wallets in use globally in the next four years.
08 July 2021
Big tech firm Google is reported to be planning a push into Japan's financial services market
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