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Singapore and Malaysia launch cross-border QR-code merchant payments

Singapore and Malaysia have linked their payment systems, enabling shoppers to make purchases across borders by scanning QR codes.

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Ingenico acquires SoftPOS vendor Phos

Ingenico has acquired SoftPOS vendor Phos for an undisclosed sum.

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JP Morgan pilots biometric payments with US merchants

JP Morgan is set to pilot biometric payments with retailers in the US, enabling shoppers to make purchases by scanning their palms or faces.

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Panera Bread trials Amazon palm reading tech

Fast food giant Panera Bread is piloting palm reading technology from Amazon that lets customers pay and access the chain's loyalty programme.

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French payments firms Synalcom and Qori merge

French payments firm Synalcom and Qori are merging to form a new company, called Sylq, that promise to offer an all-in-one merchant payments platform.

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Ingenico and Binance team on in-store crypto payment acceptance

POS terminal manufacturer Ingenico has teamed up with Binance to pilot in-store cryptocurrency payment acceptance.

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India's biggest retailer trials digital rupee

India's CBDC plans have taken a step forward with news that the country's largest retailer, Reliance Retail, has agreed to start accepting digital rupee payments.

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Cybercriminals can now block contactless payments

Prilex, a malware that was used originally to infect ATM’s and then evolved to Point-of-Sales machines has been found by Kaspersky to have modifications which now allow it to block a consumer's ability to make contactless payments, forcing them to put their cards in the machine in a bid to steal Pin codes.

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Ingenico and Fujitsu team on palm vein-based payments

Fujitsu has joined forces with Ingenico in an effort to bring its palm vein authentication technology for in-store payments into the mainstream.

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PopID and Toshiba team on face payments

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is integrating facial verification technology from PopID into its POS and self-service products.

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Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank rolls out wearable payments

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) is working with Visa and Tappy Technologies to launch the region's first tokenised contactless payment wearables.

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TfL celebrates a decade of contactless payment on London’s buses

Transport for London is celebrating a decade of contactless payments on the city's buses, with more than 2.5 billion journeys made using tap and go.

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Italy backtracks on pro-cash plans

Italy's government has scrapped plans to let merchants refuse digital payments of less than €60 after pushback from the country's central bank and the EC.

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Westpac calls off Tyro Payments acquisition

Westpac has pulled the plug on a takeover of Sydney-based Tyro Payments, which has nevertheless rejected a second offer from a Potentia Capital-led consortium.

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Walmart fintech unit preps BNPL play

Walmart-backed fintech One is planning to launch a buy now, pay later product, according to CNBC.

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Atoa raises $2.2m to take on Visa and Mastercard

Atoa Payments, a UK startup using open banking to offer merchants an alternative to debit card payments, has raised $2.2 million in a pre-seed funding round.

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Visa brings face payments and animated digital cards to World Cup

Visa is using the upcoming Fifa World Cup to show off some of its new technology, including face payments and instantly-issued prepaid cards with animated art.

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Tap to Pay startup Dapio goes live in the UK

Dapio, a London-based pay-tech turning Android smartphones into card readers without extra hardware, has launched its Tap to Pay app for small businesses and sellers across the UK.

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RBC partners Visa to offer cardholders BNPL option

Royal Bank of Canada is the latest lender to tap into Visa's BNPL technology to offer its credit cardholders the option of paying for purchases in instalments.

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Worldline to buy Banco Desio merchant acquiring activities

French payments giant Worldline is boosting its presence in Italy through the acquisition of Banco Desio’s merchant acquiring activities for around EUR100 million.