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News/Cards
The World Health Organisation is advising consumers to avoid handling bank notes and instead switch to contactless payments to deter the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
03 March 2020
News/payments
Mastercard chief product officer Michael Miebach will become CEO early next year, taking over from Ajay Banga, who is moving on to the role of executive chairman.
25 February 2020
Spanish banking giant Santander has struck a deal to buy merchant payments platform Elavon México for EUR79 million.
24 February 2020
Mastercard is to create over 1500 jobs in Dublin over the next three-to-five years, with the opening of a new tech campus in Leopardstown.
News/inclusion
Self, a fintech startup promising to help Americans build their credit while also saving money, has raised $20 million in a Series C funding round led by Altos Ventures and Conductive Ventures.
21 February 2020
Ally Financial has struck a $2.65 billion deal to buy CardWorks, enabling it to enter the credit card and merchant acquiring sectors.
19 February 2020
Coinbase has become the first pure-play cryptocurrency company to gain Visa membership.
Local communities across the UK are being encouraged to join a new national pilot scheme to redress the shift away from hard cash to card and digital-based payments.
17 February 2020
News/retail
A group of four Belgian banks and the country's postal service have enlisted Diebold Nixdorf to help them manage a new shared ATM network.
14 February 2020
Klarna has acquired the Italian buy now, pay later startup Moneymour and established a new product development hub in MIlan.
13 February 2020
Ramp, a corporate credit card startup founded by the team behind Paribus, a consumer finance firm acquired by Capital One in 2016, has raised $25 million in funding and signed up nearly 100 businesses for its launch.
Visa has made a strategic investment in ChargeAfter as part of a broader deal with the point-of-sale financing technology platform.
12 February 2020
Standard Chartered has set up a global e-commerce joint venture with Australia's Assembly Payments.
11 February 2020
Mastercard has received approval from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to begin formal preparations to set up a domestic bankcard clearing institution in the country.
Barclays Bank has extended its long-standing partnership with Visa, signing a new multi-year European agreement with the card scheme in an effort to drive innovation and product development and to support growth in new markets.
10 February 2020
News/ai
Citi Commercial Cards has teamed up with conversational AI firm Interactions to roll out an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) feature to its US call centres.
07 February 2020
The UK’s major banks have made hundreds of millions of pounds from cash machine cuts and bank branch closures in the last two years, while fees paid by consumers to access their own cash have soared, new research from Which? reveals.
ZA Bank, the first of the eight firms with a licence to launch a digital bank in Hong Kong, is to deploy payments software from Fiserv as it gears up towards a live launch.
06 February 2020
Business banking platform Tide is introducing a new expense management feature which enables users to upload an image of a receipt and automatically match the expense to a transaction made through a Tide account in real time.
04 February 2020
Digital remittance outfit Remitly is entering the banking business, launching an online account for US-based immigrants.
03 February 2020
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