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News/startups
US corporate card unicorn Brex has joined an $8.75 million seed funding round for for Indian peer Kodo.
28 May 2021
News/regulation
Controversial fintech startup Lanistar is back in the wars again after the Advertising Standards Authority ruled that claims made by the firm about the saffety of its card payments product could not be substantiated.
26 May 2021
News/payments
UK card-to-card payments platform Paysend has secured $125 million in Series B funding to grow its global footprint.
Irish B2B card payments outfit CleverCards has closed on a €10 million funding round and picked up a European Money Institution licence through the acquisition of spend management platform ExpendiaSmart.
21 May 2021
Digiseq is announcing a wearables breakthrough through a mobile app that can turn any supported object embedded with an NFC chip into a contactless payment device.
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has fined American Express £90,000 for sending more than four million marketing emails to customers who did not want to receive them.
20 May 2021
When shopping instore, Aussies are increasingly choosing digital wallets as their preferred way to pay compared to tapping a card, according to latest figures from CBA.
19 May 2021
Dutch digital bank bunq has become the first European issuer of Mastercard True Name cards, offering transgender and non-binary people the ability to use their chosen name on eligible credit cards.
18 May 2021
News/inclusion
Several big American banks, including JPMorgan Chase, are signed up for a government-backed pilot using alternative data to get credit to people with low or no credit scores, according to the Wall Street Journal.
14 May 2021
The US Federal Reserve is to push through new rules to ensure that merchants can choose between multiple networks for routing card-not-present transactions, as well as guidelines for allowing newly-chartered fintechs direct access to the Fed's payment network.
12 May 2021
VitraCash, a UK fintech startup that uses AI to select the best card in consumer wallets for each transaction, has closed a pre-seed crowdfunding round of £330,000.
Visa has made a "sizeable" equity investment in Remitly to help the digital remittance outfit expand its network in emerging markets.
11 May 2021
Curve, the London-based fintech that combines multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and app, is to return to the crowd for fresh funding five months after sealing a $95 million equity round.
Sellers of the Big Issue, a magazine sold by the homeless across the UK, are now able to accept PayPal QR Code payments, following an accelerated roll out of iZettle card readers to over a third of its vendor network.
10 May 2021
News/crypto
Canadian payments firm Nuvei has agreed a $250 million cash deal to acquire Simplex, a fintech startup providing fiat infrastructure to the cryptocurrency industry.
Visa is working with personal finance app Tala to help underbanked populations participate in the crypto economy.
05 May 2021
B2B payments player Boost Payment Solutions has raised $22 million in a Series C funding round led by Invictus Growth Partners.
All-in-one card fintech Curve has enlisted Cardlytics for the launch of an in-app rewards programme.
Barclays has identified payments as a key growth opportunity worth £900 million over three years thank to areas such as merchant acquiring and the BNPL market.
30 April 2021
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has teamed up with Mastercard and WebBank for its upcoming credit card that lets users earn crypto rewards.
28 April 2021
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