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News/payments
Stripe has secured another $100 million in funding, this time from Tiger Global Management, boosting the payments firm's valuation to $22.5 billion.
30 January 2019
Allied Irish Banks (AIB) is in exclusive talks to buy local payments outfit Payzone in a deal that could be worth EUR100 million, according to the Sunday Times.
29 January 2019
News/Eftpos
Canadian mobile contactless payments outfit Mobeewave has increased the size of its Series B funding round to almost US$20 million thanks to new money from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.
28 January 2019
Bowing to the inevitable, Microsoft is killing off its contactless payments app for Windows phones.
23 January 2019
Private equity giant Advent International is buying a 51% stake in Argentinian payments firm Prisma Medios de Pago from a consortium of local banks and Visa International in a deal valuing the company at $1.42 billion.
22 January 2019
The Church of England has teamed up with payments firm SumUp to trial a 'digital collection plate' that lets members of church congregations donate with their card or phone, rather than cash.
Rap icon Snoop Dogg is joining POS financing house Klarna as a shareholder and the global face of a new advertising campaign, 'Get Smoooth'.
17 January 2019
Following a successful trial, ABN Amro is offering all of its Dutch customers the chance to link their accounts to a host of wearable contactless payments devices.
16 January 2019
News/security
Russia's Sberbank has teamed up with supermarket chain Azbuka Vkusa to let shoppers pay for groceries with their fingerprints.
15 January 2019
Cash-out crooks have a new weapon in their armoury: the Fuze Card, which lets users store all of their (stolen) credit and debit cards on a single piece of plastic, the US Secret Service is warning.
14 January 2019
Square has lost its head of payments, Mary Kay Bowman, to Visa, where she takes on the role of Head of seller solutions.
11 January 2019
BBVA's investment arm has led a $12 million Series A funding round in checkout-free payments technology startup Grabango.
08 January 2019
Mastercard has recruited PPRO Group to help push the uptake of of its Pay by Bank app to merchants in the UK.
05 December 2018
PayPal's $2.2 billion takeover of Swedish mobile payments firm iZettle could lead to higher prices and worse service for UK customers, a Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation has found.
26 November 2018
Amazon is opening up a new front in its battle to dominate the retail world, lining up brick-and-mortar stores to start accepting its mobile payments system, according to the Wall Street Journal.
22 November 2018
A dispute between Mozambique's interbank payments system operator and its IT provider which has led to accusations of "blackmail" has left millions of people unable to use their cards at the point-of-sale or ATMs.
19 November 2018
Barclaycard has joined forces with UK chain Costa Coffee to launch a reusable coffee cup with integrated contactless payments technology that enables users to pay for their caffeine with a wave of their mug.
Poynt, the payment terminal startup founded by former Google Wallet boss Osama Bedier, has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round joined by National Australia Bank and US Bancorp-owned Elavon.
13 November 2018
Nordic payment processor Nets is collaborating with Finnish fintech Mash to provide an omni-channel 'pay later' option to shoppers across Scandinavia.
09 November 2018
As Armistice Day approaches, the Royal British Legion has introduced a new fundraising tool, a pub quiz pack that includes joker contactless donation cards that let players make donations.
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