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News/payments
American digital bank Varo has inked a five-year issuer processor deal with Marqeta.
8 hours
News/startups
Bourgeois Boheme (BoBo), a European fintech targeting high-net-worth individuals with the promise of instant transactions of up to €1 million, has closed a €6.5 million seed round led by Graphit Lifestyle.
01 August 2024
Australian bank Westpac is now offering debit cards to children as young as eight in a move it says will help them hone their financial skills.
30 July 2024
The total number of payments made in the UK increased by five per cent in 2023 with a third of Brits now regularly paying with a tap of their mobile phone, according to UK Finance figures.
24 July 2024
News/crypto
Australian stablecoin payment startup Stables has launched in Europe with a Mastercard virtual card.
23 July 2024
News/regulation
The Federal Reserve has fined Green Dot $44 million for "numerous" unfair and deceptive practices in the marketing, selling and servicing of its prepaid cards and its tax return preparation payment services.
22 July 2024
California-based Aven has raised $142 million to bring its home equity-backed credit card to homeowners across the US.
19 July 2024
On Thursday, UK shoppers were hit by a payments outage, preventing them from making online and card payments using Visa and Mastercard.
12 July 2024
Crypto wallet provider Tangem is partnering with Visa on the launch of a payment card that will be integrated with the Swiss firm's self-custodial hardware wallet.
09 July 2024
Visa and Mastercard have committed to keep a cap on tourist card fees in place for another five years, says the European Commission.
08 July 2024
A US district court judge has rejected an agreed $30 billion settlement over swipe fees between the two major card schemes and US merchants partially on the grounds that Visa and Mastercard have the financial armoury to pay "substantially" more.
01 July 2024
A new Visa service means that travellers that lose their wallet can now get a digital card replacement via text or email.
27 June 2024
A US judge has rejected a $30 billion settlement between Visa, Mastercard and retailers over credit card interchange fees.
25 June 2024
Egyptian Banking-as-a-Service startup Connect Money has closed an $8 million seed funding round led by Disruptech Ventures and Algebra Ventures.
News/wholesale
Berlin-based corporate card platform Pliant has secured a deal with Commerzbank for the delivery of a fully digital credit card for business customers.
20 June 2024
News/retail
Danish neobank Lunar has launched a debit card with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) that allows users to gain and use EuroBonus points.
18 June 2024
Mastercard has set itself a target of hitting 100% e-commerce tokenisation in Europe by 2030, phasing out manual card entry and making online shopping safer and more accessible.
11 June 2024
Visa is rolling out a service for financial institutions to provide cardholders with a convenient way to manage and track their subscriptions.
10 June 2024
News/security
Capital One, Stripe and Adyen have banded together on a free, open source product designed to help reduce fraud losses and false declines for merchants.
07 June 2024
Card issuer and payment processor Enfuce has teamed up with French worktech Swile to launch an all-in-one employee benefits card.
04 June 2024
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