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WHO urges switch to contactless to slow virus transmission

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.

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Mastercard CEO Banga to step down

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.

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Santander buys Elavon México for global merchant acquiring push

Spanish banking giant Santander has struck a deal to buy merchant payments platform Elavon México for EUR79 million.

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Mastercard to recruit 1500 tech staff for new Dublin campus

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.

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Credit-building startup Self raises $20m

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.

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Ally agrees $2.65bn CardWorks acquisition

Ally Financial has struck a $2.65 billion deal to buy CardWorks, enabling it to enter the credit card and merchant acquiring sectors.

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Coinbase becomes Visa Principal Member

Coinbase has become the first pure-play cryptocurrency company to gain Visa membership.

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UK launches local pilot schemes to support continued access to cash

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.

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Belgian banks call in Diebold Nixdorf for ATM services

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.

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Klarna acquires Italian buy now, pay later firm Moneymour

Klarna has acquired the Italian buy now, pay later startup Moneymour and established a new product development hub in MIlan.

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Fintech startup Ramp aims to disrupt the corporate credit market

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.

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Visa invests in POS financing platform ChargeAfter

Visa has made a strategic investment in ChargeAfter as part of a broader deal with the point-of-sale financing technology platform.

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Standard Chartered forms online payments joint venture

Standard Chartered has set up a global e-commerce joint venture with Australia's Assembly Payments.

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Mastercard wins approval to set up shop in China

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.

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Barclays signs European agreement with Visa

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.

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Citi Commercial Cards adds virtual agent to call centres

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.

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UK consumers bearing the cost of cash machine fee hikes

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.

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Fiserv wins deal with Hong Kong virtual bank ZA

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.

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Tide rolls out receipt importer product

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.

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Remitly launches bank account for immigrants in the US

Digital remittance outfit Remitly is entering the banking business, launching an online account for US-based immigrants.