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News/payments
Apple is facing an antitrust class-action lawsuit in the US accusing it of illegally profiting from card issuers through policies that prevent competition to its Apple Pay wallet.
19 July 2022
News/startups
French startup Qori has launched, enabling Europeans to pay in store, remotely or online with their bank or crypto wallet without having to download a proprietary app.
12 July 2022
Canadian debit network Interac is adding a backup network provider in the wake of last week's massive outage at Rogers, which left millions of customers unable to make payments.
11 July 2022
Synch Payments, the mobile payments joint venture set up by Ireland's leading banks, has brought in Italy's Nexi as its technology partner.
30 June 2022
Vibrant, a Danish app that turns Android mobile devices into points of sale, has raised €4 million in a seed round led by byFounders with participation from Luminar Ventures.
Australian bank Westpac is offering small businesses technology that lets them accept contactless payments via Android mobile phones.
29 June 2022
News/people
Digital banking technology provider Amount is the latest fintech to trim its workforce, reducing its headcount by 18%, according to TechCrunch.
27 June 2022
London-based mPOS vendor SumUp has raised €590 million in a funding round that values the firm at €8 billion - down from the €20 billion valuation it was seeking early this year.
23 June 2022
PayPal's Zettle unit has introduced functionality that lets small businesses in the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands accept contactless payments in-person, directly on their Android devices with no additional hardware or fees.
13 May 2022
Egyptian digital payments provider Paymob is to further its expansion into new markets across the Middle East and Africa region after receiving a $50 million cash injection in a funding round led by Kora Capital, PayPal Ventures, and Clay Point.
12 May 2022
Kevin., a Lithuanian-based account-to-account payment startup, has raised $65 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel.
04 May 2022
News/regulation
The European Commission has charged Apple with restricting access to the NFC chip technology that enables iPhone users to make payments.
02 May 2022
News/identity
Biometric identity authentication firm FinGo has unveiled what it claims is the world's first vein ID-enabled vending machine, where customers can pay and prove their age for alcohol purchases through a scan of their finger.
28 April 2022
Asian omnichannel buy now, pay later platform hoolah has teamed up with no-code payments automation platform Primer to make it easy for merchants in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong to integrate BNPL into their systems.
22 April 2022
Digital bank Quontic has unveiled the US market's first ever contactless payments ring that customers can link to their checking accounts.
14 April 2022
Some of the banks behind Zelle want to take the American P2P payments service to the checkout, taking on Visa and Mastercard, according to the Wall Street Journal.
07 April 2022
News/crypto
Worldpay is set to offer merchants the ability to receive settlement directly in Circle's stablecoin USDC.
Visa is working with consumer authentication service PopID to bring facial verification payments to the Middle East.
06 April 2022
Dapio, a UK outfit that helps businesses accept contactless payments on their Android devices, has raised $3.4 million in a round co-led by African paymentts behemoth Flutterwave and Techstars.
31 March 2022
Australian merchant payments group DataMesh has secured $12m in a pre-Series A funding round, including new investor NAB Ventures.
30 March 2022
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