News Round-ups

Mastercard gets China go-ahead

Visa launches Borderless card with Airwallex

Visa invests in ChargeAfter

Standered Chartered JV to launch ecommerce platform

Moneygram FastSend enables transfers via mobile numbers

Revolut gets Open Banking

Fingopay trials bank- to-bank POS payments

N26 quits UK

Fernergo raises $80m

Max (ex Leumi Card) acquires CreditGuard

Sabre/Farelogix deal raises CMA concerns

CMA looking at extension to Open Banking timetable

Which? accuses banks over ATMs but UK Finance fights back

FCA writes to credit card issuers

EBA looks for AML supervision improvements

US Fed on Digitalisation of payments

BIS in similar vein re CBDCs

Worldline and Ingenico to combine

EIB supports Polish fintech

Russia breaks 50% cashless barrier

New York bans cashless stores

WEF global consortium on digital currencies

BIS on fintech regulation

Germans converting to contactless

PSR seeks views on UK payments

WEX makes M&A move

Commonwealth Bank of Australia adds to Klarna investment

ONS Retail Sales December

UPI/PayPal partnership

Visa UK ‘access to cash’

Deutsche Bank on Cash

UK ‘digital-only’ conversion

N26 milestone

BIS digital currency survey

Libra developments

Visa Token Service and changes to Checkout

UK Finance Card spend

UK SMEs Open Banking survey

Visa to acquire Plaid

Visa invests in Very Good Security

Google to acquire Pointy

UK Ban on credit card gambling

EBA on Big Data

Global Blue gets Ant Financial investment

BBVA trialling Amazon

TPPs and PSD2

UK FCA now regulator for crypto

Alibaba making European push

Amex Chinese application accepted

New NFC specifications

Alexa Skill introduced for US fuel purchases