payments


Finance

FTX Leads $150M Funding Round in African Payments Firm Chipper Cash

The cross-border payments company is now valued at roughly $2 billion.

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Finance

OLB Group Surges 90% After Saying It’s Ready for Mastercard Bitcoin Payments

The move comes as payment firms seek to integrate cryptocurrency into their offerings for merchants.

Mastercard Acquires Blockchain Analytics Firm CipherTrace

Finance

Singaporean Payments Unicorn Nium Launches Crypto-as-a-Service Platform

Nium says its new service will target banks, businesses and neo-financial institutions.

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Policy

Facebook, Square, PayPal and Others Told to Hand Over Payments Info to Consumer Finance Watchdog

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to see information about the payments products, plans and practices of Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Square and PayPal.

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Finance

Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support

“Crypto is a brand new team at Stripe,” one job post says.

John Collison, co-founder and president of Stripe (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)

Finance

Verifone Partners With BitPay to Support Crypto Payments

Rollout will commence later this year across Verifone’s merchant network in the U.S.

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Tech

Italian Payments Giant Nexi Says It Is ‘Contributing’ to Design of Digital Euro

“We are starting to talk about a new version of cash,” Nexi’s CEO said. “That’s why we are engaging with the ECB.”

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Finance

Kraken’s App Adds Support for Apple, Google Pay

The move is designed to make it easier to buy spot crypto via the exchange’s app.

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Finance

London-Based Open Banking Startup TrueLayer Raises $130M Led by Tiger Global, Stripe

The fundraise sees TrueLayer’s valuation surpass $1 billion, thus giving it “unicorn” status.

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Finance

How Media Fell for a Lucrative Lie About Walmart

A series of failures by news services and gatekeepers sent Litecoin, an early altcoin, on a wild, fraudulent ride.

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