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Visa teams with Vipps to accelerate mobile payments deployment in Europe

02 Sep 20 @ 09:27

Visa and Vipps, the Norwegian digital wallet, announced a strategic partnership to accelerate mobile payments in Europe. Visa’s clients and partners will now be able to take advantage of the... read more

Klarna posts net loss of $59.8 million for H1 – valuation increases to $5.5 billion

02 Sep 20 @ 08:40

Klarna has reported a ballooning net loss in H1 2020, as the company invested in an international expansion drive and set aside reserves to deal with credit losses amid the COVID-19... read more

ibanXS expands banking coverage to over 1400 banks

01 Sep 20 @ 10:11

ibanXS, the cloud-based platform delivering PSD2 access to any European bank for Payment Initiation and Account Information services, is now connected with over 1,400 European banks. Through this network, ibanXS... read more

BIS Report: Rise of the central bank digital currencies (CBDC)

28 Aug 20 @ 12:39

Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) are receiving more attention than ever before. Yet the motivations for issuance vary across countries, as do the policy approaches and technical designs. A new... read more

World’s first e-commerce payment using stablecoin

28 Aug 20 @ 09:55

This week signified a major breakthrough for stablecoin payments. Much derided for the lack of speed and power needed to perform consumer payments, this week Coinify, Sygnum Bank and Galaxus... read more

Ant group files for IPO – Alipay drives the price up

26 Aug 20 @ 15:48

Ant Group is gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO) that could give it a valuation as big as Bank of America – with Alipay driving the price into... read more

Amazon silent unbundling attack of the financial services market

26 Aug 20 @ 12:26

If you mentioned that Amazon was trying to take a foothold in the financial services and payments market, not many would be surprised. But what if you explained how deep... read more

JP Morgan eyes lunch of digital bank in UK

26 Aug 20 @ 11:49

JP Morgan Chase has been reported to be preparing to launch a digital bank in the UK in Q1 2020. The rumours suggest that JP has signed up suppliers to... read more

832% increase in Open Banking payments during COVID-19 lockdown

25 Aug 20 @ 14:48

TrueLayer says it has recorded a massive increase in consumers using Open Banking Payment Initiation (PI) to pay for goods and services during the lockdown. PI is a new form... read more

Is Decentralised Finance (DeFi) set to transform financial services?

25 Aug 20 @ 13:22

The blockchain industry is excited, very excited about a new (relatively) buzz word – decentralised finance  or DeFi as it is rapidly becoming know as. The industry is on the... read more

EU GDPR fines top €60 million – over 124 fines issued to-date

25 Aug 20 @ 11:36

New research released by Finbold reveals which countries in Europe violate GDPR guidelines the most, as well as the total combined GDPR fines of EU countries to date. Its been... read more

Q&A: Mobile wallets – the key customer channel

24 Aug 20 @ 14:32

Payments cards & Mobile speaks to Li Yan, Founder and CEO of Wiseasy, to get his views on the future of mobile wallets and digital banking. Mobile wallets are on... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more

Visa Builds Agentic Commerce Infrastructure as Credentials Reach 5.2 Billion

29 Oct 26 @ 19:39

Visa is expanding its payments infrastructure around agentic commerce, stablecoins and tokenisation as its global credential base reaches 5.2 billion and ... more

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more