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News/payments
The European Card Payment Association (EPCA) has called for a strong stance on payments soveriegnty across the bloc amid ongoing geo-political turmoil and fall out from Trump tarrifs.
4 hours
London-based buy now, pay later firm Zilch is launching a physical card as part of a partnership with Visa.
13 hours
News/startups
Slash has raised $41 million at a $370 million valuation for its business banking platform that promises to end the one-size-fits-all model and instead provide bespoke offerings for different industries.
23 May 2025
Keep, an all-in-one financial platform for small businesses, has emerged from stealth with C$33 million in equity financing to build a Canadian Brex.
Airwallex has raised $300 million in a Series F funding round that values the payments firm at $6.2 billion.
22 May 2025
Visa has launched a programme it says will turbo-charge the fintech ecosystem by making it easier for businesses to embed payments into their applications.
Mastercard's £200 million settlement of a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of British consumers has been signed off by the Competition Appeal Tribunal in a move that could see millions of shoppers receiving up to £70 each.
20 May 2025
News/crypto
Mastercard is stepping up its commitment to stablecoins, inking a deal with MoonPay to enable people and businesses to use them for payments across global markets.
16 May 2025
Europe's largest retailers have banded together to press the European Commission to crack down on fees charged by Visa and Mastercard.
15 May 2025
Credit and debit cards continue to dominate American payments, but cash is still an important player, accounting for 14% of all consumer transactions in 2024, according to the Federal Reserve.
14 May 2025
News/ai
Visa has unveiled its plans for two of the next big things in payments: agentic commerce and stablecoins.
01 May 2025
Mastercard is paying $300 million for a three per cent stake in the cross-border business of corporate payments outfit Corpay.
29 April 2025
Berlin-based corporate card platform Pliant has raised a $40 million Series B equity round to fuekl its expansion to the US.
28 April 2025
Flex, a fintech that helps business owners automate their back offices, has acquired Maza a fintech app aimed at Spanish-speakers in a $40 million deal.
25 April 2025
News/regulation
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has ordered Discover Bank to return more than $1.2 billion to merchants that were overcharged on swipe fees and pay a $150 million civil money penalty.
22 April 2025
Barclays has entered a strategic partnership with Brookfield Asset Management that will work towards offloading the UK bank's payments acceptance business "over time".
17 April 2025
The payments sector is getting a major shakeup, with Global Payments agreeing a $22.7 billion deal to acquire Worldpay from GTRC and FIS while offloading its Issuer Solutions business to FIS for $13.5 billion.
A US judge has killed of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping credit card late fees at $8.
16 April 2025
Blockchain bank account startup Bleap has joined with Mastercard to launch a non-custodial debit card, making it possible for people to connect stablecoin payments with traditional financial payment rails.
As it reports a 65% surge in full-year profit, Dutch digital bank bunq has stepped up its effort to crack the US, filing for a broker-dealer licence in the country.
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