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News/payments
Fiserv is joining forces with PayBright to let small businesses in Canada that use the Clover POS platform offer buy now, pay later plans at checkout.
12 May 2021
Netstars, the operator of Japan’s largest QR code payment gateway, has completed a $60 million funding round amid plans for international expansion.
16 April 2021
News/startups
UK-based buy now, pay later player Zilch is rolling out a 'tap and pay-over-time' feature that lets shoppers make in-store payments with a wave of their digital wallet, with the cost spread over a six week period.
08 April 2021
News/crypto
Nordic payments processor Nets is working with cryptocurrency specialist Salamantex to enable acceptance of bitcoin, Ether and XRP at points-of-sale tills in Austria.
31 March 2021
Australian BNPL giant Afterpay is stepping up its assault on in-store payments through the introduction of a contactless virtual card offering.
30 March 2021
Visa is set to take advantage of Brexit to raise interchange fees on cross-border transactions between the UK and EU, according to the Financial Times. The move comes as the payments giant faces an investigation by the US Justice Department over possible anticompetitive practices in debit card transaction routing.
19 March 2021
News/inclusion
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has teamed up with a State Bank of India unit to launch a tool that turns NFC-enabled phones into merchant point-of-sale terminals.
10 March 2021
Amazon has opened a cashierless store in London that lets customers "just walk out" once they have collected their shopping, with payment automatically taken from their account.
04 March 2021
Indian fintech BharatPe has hit a $900 million valuation off the back of a $108 million Series D funding round led by Coatue Management.
12 February 2021
News/security
French bank BNP Paribas is offering its Visa Premier cardholders the chance to upgrade to a contactless fingerprint option - for a €24 annual fee.
27 January 2021
UK supermarkets Morrisons and The Co-op have suffered payments glitches that have left some customers unable to pay by card and others charged twice.
26 January 2021
News/cloud
Mastercard has teamed up with NMI and Global Payments to launch its first cloud point-of-sale acceptance technology.
11 January 2021
New York's Metropolitan Transport Authority has completed the year-and-a-half-long rollout of contactless payments across its subway stations.
06 January 2021
In the wake of Brexit, banks are pushing the UK government to increase the contactless payments limit to £100, breaking with an EU cap of £45.
04 January 2021
American buy now, pay later credit card alternative Affirm is beefing up its presence north of the border through a C$340 million (US$264 million) deal to buy Toronto-based PayBright.
03 December 2020
Finland-based digital receipt startup ReceiptHero has raised €2 million in seed funding from local VC Lifeline Ventures, with participation from Superhero Capital and Sweden's Vidici Ventures.
News/retail
Digital banking technology provider Amount has raised $81 million in a Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs.
People in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg can now make mobile payments in each of the countries after Payconiq and its Digicash unit integrated their platforms.
02 December 2020
UK payments startup Primer has raised £14 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel.
30 November 2020
The rush to abandon cash during the pandemic may be unnecessary, according to a scientific study from the Bank of England, which finds that the risk of Covid-19 transmission by banknotes is low.
24 November 2020
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