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    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      LexBlock Inc
      Block: merchant payments innovator struggles to defend home turf  Premium content

      The group has crypto ambitions, but still depends upon Square’s profits

      Cash App’s logo at a bitcoin conference
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      WhatsApp Inc
      WhatsApp launches in-chat payments service for businesses in India

      Parent company Meta seeks to tap its messaging service’s biggest market to boost revenue

      Tourists walk past WhatsApp ads in Mumbai
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Special ReportThe Future of Banking
      Brazil counts success with Pix payments tool

      State-backed instant transfer service is credited with helping to widen financial inclusion

      A man at a stall in São Paolo, Brazil, pays with a credit card
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Digital banking
      UK cash use grows for first time in a decade

      Debit card usage rises even faster, reaching 50 per cent of payments in 2022

    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      News in-depthSafaricom Ltd
      Safaricom’s mobile money rollout in Ethiopia marks moment for ‘last frontier’

      Privatisation wave makes country of 120mn people a tempting target for digital services

      A Safaricom advert in Nairobi
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      Indian economy
      India to expand digital payments with AI-powered voice transactions

      UPI to roll out services targeting rural users with limited internet access and literacy

      A QR code for the Paytm digital payment system at a store in Mumbai, India
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      LexAdyen NV
      Adyen: minted US payments groups outstrip Dutch hopeful Premium content

      Rivals are grabbing market share with aggressive pricing strategies

      Adyen’s logo on the wall of its headquarters in Amsterdam
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      MTN Group Ltd
      Mastercard to take minority stake in fintech arm of South Africa’s MTN

      Division that covers payments and remittances valued at more than $5bn

      A receptionist and two men in the entrance hall of MTN’s Johannesburg headquarters
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      Fintech
      Fed launches real-time payments system in first big upgrade since 1970s

      US central bank’s move will enable Americans to move money electronically in seconds

      The Federal Reserve building in Washington
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      China affords Nigeria ‘super’ target status

      Activities give sense of the importance Chinese companies in several sectors attach to country’s potential

      Website of African fintech company OPay on iPhone
    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
      LexPayPal Inc
      PayPal CEO wanted: must be able to reverse $293bn share price slump Premium content

      Unbranded business faces stiff competition from the likes of Apple, Google, Affirm and Afterpay

      The PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California
    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Claer Barrett
      Could a digital pound pay off for consumers?

      The Bank of England’s ‘Britcoin’ project could transform transactions — but questions about who gains from our data remain

      A plaque depicting Britannia is seen on the outside of the Bank of England in the City of London
    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Amy Kazmin
      Italy, India, and the bumpy road to cashless payments

      Giorgia Meloni’s attempt to impose a €60 minimum for cards has been quashed, to the relief of Italian consumers

      A tourist hands over a bank card to pay for breakfast in San Marco Square in Venice, Italy
    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Special ReportNext Tech Growth Markets
      Fintech upstarts challenge payment card empires

      The pandemic has intensified the threat posed by neobanks and ‘buy now, pay later’ companies

      A Klarna app logo on a mobile phone
    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      Patrick Jenkins
      Why Visa and Mastercard have yet to face their Kodak moment

      The fintech disrupters of the payments sector are no such thing

      A sales clerk stacks Kodak film in a camera shop in Tokyo
    • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
      LexFinancial services
      Mastercard/Visa: new bill will do little to challenge duopoly Premium content

      Consumers may not feel much benefit from greater competition

      Visa and Mastercard credit cards
    • Monday, 3 October, 2022
      Prosus
      Prosus scraps $4.7bn deal for Indian payments group BillDesk

      Investment arm of South Africa’s Naspers says certain conditions for purchase had not been met

      Logo for Prosus on a smartphone screen
    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      JPMorgan Chase & Co
      How JPMorgan’s plan to kill credit cards split the bank

      Jamie Dimon warned executives to put aside rivalries and deliver critical ‘pay-by-bank’ project

      JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon
    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      MindGeek
      Visa and Mastercard cut ties with ad arm of Pornhub owner MindGeek

      Court ruling in lawsuit alleging profits from illegal content lead credit card issuers to distance themselves from TrafficJunky

      Women pose in a Pornhub advertisement
    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      Fintech
      SumUp struggles to €8bn valuation as tech sell-off hits UK fintech

      London-based payment-services group had earlier hoped to raise funds at €20bn pricetag

      SumUp logo
    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Driven round the bend by cashless parking

      Is it convenience or council cost-cutting that’s really driving the race towards digital services?

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      InterviewGoto
      GoTo jumps into ‘buy now pay later’ fray as global scrutiny builds on sector

      Indonesia’s biggest start-up is banking on the lending space as it works to become profitable

      Motorcyclists travel past a billboard advertising GoTo’s initial public offering in Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Monday, 6 June, 2022
      Apple Inc
      Apple to offer buy now, pay later credit in challenge to Klarna and Affirm

      Tech group announces short-term loans system even as pandemic ecommerce boom begins to wane

      A customer uses Apple Pay mobile payment at a contactless payment terminal
    • Monday, 6 June, 2022
      African companies
      African payments company makes rare purchase of US fintech

      Deal by MFS Africa is further evolution of continent’s rapidly growing fintech scene

      A man shops online through a laptop and credit card
    • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
      Cars, bikes, planes and boats
      Tell us your views about parking apps

      FT Money wants to hear from readers being driven around the bend by digital parking payments

      A RingGo parking sign in a car park
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