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Santander to issue Mastercard Debit in the UK

02 May 18 @ 15:51

Mastercard and Santander have announced that they will work together to issue debit cards to all the Bank’s retail current account customers on Mastercard’s network. Customers will begin to receive... read more

eBay and PayPal finalise new payments agreement

27 Apr 18 @ 10:14

eBay and PayPal have confirmed the signing of a previously-announced agreement to offer PayPal as a way to pay on eBay until July 2023. This new agreement builds on the... read more

Verifone to be acquired by Francisco Partners for $3.4 billion

10 Apr 18 @ 09:56

Verifone Systems and Francisco Partners, a leading technology-focused private equity firm, have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which an investor group led by Francisco Partners... read more

Payconiq mobile payments app merges with Bancontact in Belgium

26 Mar 18 @ 13:44

Payconiq, a mobile payments app supported by the majority of Belgian and Dutch banks, is to merge with Bancontact, the Belgian market leader in electronic payments. Created from a merger... read more

nexo and FIS sign for globally standardised card payments acceptance

20 Feb 18 @ 09:14

nexo standards has signed an agreement with FIS to develop a suite of test tools that will allow vendors, acquirers and processors to test the compliance of their payment systems... read more

eBay dumps PayPal for Adyen – BofA signs global collaboration

01 Feb 18 @ 14:23

Its been a mixed day for Paypal. eBay, one of the world’s biggest online marketplaces, announced that it’s dropping PayPal as its main partner for processing payments in favour of Adyen. The... read more

Vantiv and Worldpay complete combination to form Worldpay Inc.

17 Jan 18 @ 13:31

Vantiv has completed its acquisition of Worldpay Group. The combined company, named Worldpay, Inc. creates a leading payments provider uniquely equipped to power global integrated omni-commerce, processing more than 40 billion transactions... read more

Bancontact select PPRO to help boost Belgian cross-border e-commerce sales

16 Jan 18 @ 10:22

PPRO Group have become a direct acquirer for Bancontact, the leading Belgian electronic payment scheme. The relationship will provide merchant aggregators worldwide with an efficient method to allow their merchants... read more

Ant Financial forced to abandon MoneyGram purchase due to US regulatory pressure

03 Jan 18 @ 13:02

Ant Financial, the digital payments arm of Alibaba, has been forced to abandon a merger with MoneyGram, having failed to satisfy the US government that the deal posed no risk... read more

TSYS to buy payment processing firm Cayan for $1.05 billion

19 Dec 17 @ 11:26

TSYS says it will buy payment processing firm Cayan for $1.05 billion in cash to expand its offerings to small and mid-sized US businesses. The deal is expected to modestly... read more

Thales swoops in as Gemalto accepts €4.8bn cash offer rejecting Atos

18 Dec 17 @ 13:08

Thales has had its offer to buy struggling Gemalto in a deal worth close to €4.8bn. The agreement comes just days after Gemalto had rejected a €4.3bn takeover proposal by Atos,... read more

Atos forges ahead with $5.1 billion bid after Gemalto rebuff

14 Dec 17 @ 14:47

Atos is ruthlessly pursuing its unsolicited bid to buy Gemalto even after the security-software maker’s board unanimously rejected the €4.3-billion ($5.1 billion) offer. Atos’s offer “significantly” undervalues the company, Gemalto said in a statement late Wednesday in... read more

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ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market

23 Sep 26 @ 14:34

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launchin... more

European E-commerce Hits €911bn as Payments Reshape Online Retail

21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent's economy while intensifying ... more

Inside A7: How Russia built a parallel cross-border payments network

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, ... more