Latest Cards News: Finextra Research

Finn AI boosts chatbot through Visa developer platform

Canadian virtual assistant startup Finn AI is tapping Visa's developer platform to expand its conversational banking chatbot's capabilities.

15 June 2018

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Alior to launch pan-European digital bank with solarisBank and Raisin

Poland's Alior Bank is going pan-European, teaming with Berlin-based solarisBank, Raisin, and Mastercard in an effort to conquer the continent.

14 June 2018

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Dixons Carphone breach compromises 5.9m customer cards

UK consumer electronics retail group Dixons Carphone has suffered a massive data breach, compromising 5.9 million customer cards and 1.2 million personal data records.

13 June 2018

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Live: EBAday2018, day two

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Munich this week for EBAday 2018, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

13 June 2018

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Starling Bank introduces gambling blocker tech

Starling Bank has introduced a gambling blocker, enabling customers with addiction problems to block betting payments from their accounts.

13 June 2018

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Live: EBAday2018, day one

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Munich this week for EBAday 2018, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

12 June 2018

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Revolut launches in Russia

Digital banking startup Revolut is entering the Russian market after inking a deal giving it access to the payment infrastructure of local player Qiwi Bank.

07 June 2018

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Mastercard Send to launch in UK

Mastercard has enlisted Starling Bank as the settlement agent for the forthcoming debut of its P2P and B2C disbursement service Send in the UK.

06 June 2018

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Goldman Sachs joins funding round for card issuing outfit Marqeta

Open API card issuing and processing platform Marqeta has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Iconiq Capital and joined by Goldman Sachs.

05 June 2018

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UK politicians round on Visa over breakdown

UK politicians are calling Visa to account for the hardware failure on Friday that left people across the UK and Europe unable to use their cards to pay for goods and services.

05 June 2018

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Mastercard seeks to break down trust barriers in Open Banking

Mastercard has unveiled a suite of services to help banks and fintechs navigate the Open Banking terrain.

05 June 2018

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Visa launches $100 million venture fund; introduces fast track programme for startups

Visa in Europe has launched a $100 venture investment fund and a fast track programme for onboarding fintech startups to the network.

04 June 2018

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Visa outage hits payments across Europe

Card network Visa has confirmed that it is suffering a "service disruption" in Europe, leaving shoppers unable to use their cards at the point-of-sale.

01 June 2018

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PayPal and Temasek invest $125m in India's Pine Labs

PayPal's shopping spree continues as the US behemoth makes its third investment in a fortnight, joining with Singapore's Temasek to pay $125 million for a minority stake in Indian digital retail payments platform Pine Labs.

31 May 2018

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Hyundai preps in-car payments

Car maker Hyundai is working on an in-vehicle credit card payment service that enables drivers to find and pay for coffee, gas and parking from their "infotainment" screen.

30 May 2018

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London pushes contactless payments for busking

London has enlisted iZettle for a contactless payments system that enables the city's buskers to accept money from cashless fans.

28 May 2018

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Student develops contactless tipping system for buskers

The times, they are a changing. With fewer people carrying cash, a British university student has developed a system that lets buskers accept contactless payments.

25 May 2018

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European payments chiefs to gather in Munich for EBAday2018

A host of board directors, chief financial officers and payments and technology heads from Europe's leading banks have confirmed their participation in the conference programme for the thirteenth annual EBAday, taking place this year in Munich between the 12th and 13th June.

25 May 2018

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Visa invests in Latin American mobile payments outfit YellowPepper

Visa has made a strategic investment in YellowPepper in an effort to push the adoption of mobile payments and tokenisation in Latin America and the Caribbean.

24 May 2018

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PayPal agrees $2.2 billion deal for iZettle

PayPal has reached an agreement to acquire Stockholm-based iZettle in an all-cash deal valued at $2.2 billion, it's biggest ever transaction in a dynamic and fluctuating payments environment.

18 May 2018