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Worldline slips on deteriorating outlook

Shares in French payments processor Worldline slipped in early morning trading after the company reported a net loss due to a €1.15 billion impairment charge in merchant services and a deteriorating outlook.

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Google Pay to shut down in the US

Google is rejigging its mobile payments services again, killing off Google Pay in the US in favour of Google Wallet.

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Toast cuts 550 jobs

Restaurant POS fintech Toast is axing 550 jobs - 15% of its workforce - as part of a cost-cutting restructuring plan.

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Colombian payments startup Bold raises $50m

Colombian payments fintech Bold has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round led by General Atlantic.

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Amazon's Just Walk Out technology makes debut at Australian student campus

The Canberra Institute of Technology Student Association (CITSA) has become the first educational establishment in the Southern Hemisphere to implement Amazon's Just Walk Out technology in the campus store.

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Apple offers to open up NFC payments access to settle EU antitrust probe

Apple has moved to head off European Commission antitrust charges by offering third-party providers access to the NFC chip technology that enables iPhone users to make contactless payments.

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Walmart brings BNPL payments to self-checkout kiosks with Affirm

Walmart has struck a deal with Affirm to offer buy now, pay later options at self-checkout kiosks at over 4500 US stores.

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JCB to begin Phase 2 trials of offline CBDC

Japanese card issuer JCB is moving to Phase 2 of a pilot to trial offline P2P payments for a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

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Samsung pushes mobile wallet take-up with Mastercard partnership

Samsung is joining Mastercard's new Wallet Express programme, making it easier for banks and card issuers in the UK to offer their customers the electronic giant's own multi-faceted mobile wallet offering.

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UK's Paymentsense scores Irish e-money licence

UK-based PaymentSense is entering the Irish market under the Dojo trading name after securing an e-money licence from the country's central bank.

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PaymentSense eyes Irish money licence

Ireland's payments sector looks set for increased competition following reports that UK-based PaymentSense plans to apply to the Central Bank for an e-money licence.

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Mastercard and NEC team on in-store biometric payments

Mastercard is working with NEC Corporation to push the use of facial recognition technology for instore payments in Asia Pacific.

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TrueLayer brings open banking payments to Shopify

Following its reccent integration with Stripe, TrueLayer's new A2A payments app has nowgone live in the Shopify App Store, allowing UK and EU merchants to add open banking payments to their checkout.

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Aussie university pilot offline CBDC

Students at Australia's Southern Cross University have been piloting the use of a CBDC to pay for goods and services offline at on-campus vendors.

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US Bank launches POS lending tech

US Bank has launched an embedded, multi-channel point-of-sale lending platform that lets firms offer customers financing at the checkout.

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Stripe embeds A2A payments in checkout with TrueLayer

Stripe is to provide customers of European merchants with the option to ditch card-based payments in favour of open banking linked transactions through an embedded checkout integration with TrueLayer

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Samsung invests in Skipify

Skipify, a fintech outfit smoothing the online checkout experience, has secured a strategic investment from Samsung.

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Marqeta inks deal with European BNPL firm Scalapay

Marqeta has reached an agreement with Southern European BNPL provider Scalapay to use its platform to issue cards both online and in-store.

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POS startup Lopay raises £6m

British app-based POS startup Lopay has raised £6 million in a seed funding round joined by BackedVC, Portage and The Venture Collective.

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Digiseq and Unlimit bring wearable payments to Rugby World Cup

Wearable payments firm Digiseq has teamed up with Unlimit to bring contactless prepaid key fobs and access control to 1000 guests at the 2023 Rugby World Cup.