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Wirecard Wins TAV Operation Services as a New Client for Alipay Payments in Airport Lounges Worldwide
BUSINESS INSIDER
Oct. 23, 2018, 01:30 AM


Singapore River Festival adopts e-payments
THE BUSINESS TIMES
FRI, OCT 19, 2018 – 7:14 PM


Twilio and Stripe connect for over-the-phone digital payments
siliconrepublic
19 OCTOBER 2018


Payment cards in circulation worldwide
The Nilson Report
October 21, 2018


American Express & PayPal Announce Expanded Strategic Partnership
PayPal
October 18, 2018


Multiple award wins for Paysafe’s female leaders around the world
Paysafe
Oct 17, 2018


Global Payments 2018: Reimagining the Customer Experience
The Boston Consulting Group
OCTOBER 18, 2017


Allow yourself to fail in public:’ Read what Jack Dorsey told Square’s CFO as she took another job
CNBC
SAT, OCT 13 2018 • 5:22 PM EDT


Emerging Payments Awards 2018 Winners
Emerging Payments Awards
October 11, 2018


Square CFO Sarah Friar steps down to join Nextdoor as CEO
strong>San Francisco Chronicle
10-Oct-2018


Gap Inc. Selects Adyen As Payments Partner
PR Newswire
Oct 10, 2018, 07:01 ET


Credit Card Giant Chase Jumps Into Tours and Activities
Skift
Oct 04, 2018 1:30 am


H&M buys $20 million stake in Swedish fintech firm Klarna
Reuters
OCTOBER 8, 2018 / 11:11 AM


The College Dropouts Who Rode Credit Cards Into The Billion-Dollar Startup Club
Wall Street Journal
Oct. 5, 2018 8:00 a.m. ET


CIMB is first in Malaysia to bring QR acceptance from six mobile wallets on one payment terminal
CIMB
02 October 2018


The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook
WIRED
Friday 5 October 2018


Square expands its bank-like offerings, letting sellers charge customers in installments
CNBC
OCT 4 2018 • 9:00 AM EDT


Apple adds support for contactless student ID cards in Wallet
Apple
October 2, 2018


Wouldn’t it be better if self-checkout just died?
Vox
Oct 2, 2018, 7:00am EDT


ALIPAY LAUNCHES IN-APP GUIDE FOR GERMANY’S OKTOBERFEST
ALIZILA
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018


M&S ROLLS OUT CHECKOUT FREE CHECKOUT AS PART OF DIGITAL FIRST STRATEGY
MARKS&SPENCER
01 October 2018


Grab pushes e-payments in SE Asia as Go-Jek expands
Nikkei
September 29, 2018 14:07 JST


Flavors of Fast
FIS GLOBAL
September, 2018


Payment Startup Stripe Is Now a $20 Billion Company
The fast-growing startup has raised $245 million and signed on new customers.
Bloomberg
September 26, 2018, 11:12 PM GMT+5:30


Western Union Is Weighing Sale of Business-Payments Unit
Bloomberg
September 26, 2018, 7:46 PM GMT+5:30


Bank of America Merchant Services’ Annual Small Business Payments Spotlight Highlights Key Trends to Help Small Businesses Thrive
Business wire
September 26, 2018 07:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time


FUTURE OF PAYMENTS
RACONTEUR
SEP, 2018


Mastercard signs on as global partner for League of Legends
CNET
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018 9:00 PM PDT


Should cashless retail stores be banned?
The Guardian
Fri 21 Sep 2018 11.00 BST


Bridging the last mile in digital payments
The Business Times (Singapore)
THU, SEP 20, 2018 – 5:50 AM


Starting today, Google Pay is available in Italy
Google Pay
19 September 2018


Visa and Mastercard Reach $6.2 Billion Settlement on Card Fees
Visa, Mastercard Face Next Fight After $6.2 Billion Settlement
Bloomberg
September 18, 2018, 4:07 PM GMT+5:30


‘Just walk out shopping’: Amazon Go opens first Chicago location of its cashierless convenience store
Chicago Tribune
September 17, 2018


Divido Secures $15M to License its ‘Pay-later’ Platform for Retailers, Lenders and Payment Partners
Divido
September 18, 2018


Singapore’s payments transformation pushes ahead with single QR code
The Business Times
TUE, SEP 18, 2018 – 5:50 AM


Landlord claims pub is first in UK to stop taking cash payments
Aol.
Sep 18th 2018 6:36AM


Europe leads contactless adoption as almost 1 in 2 transactions are now contactless
Mastercard Newsroom
September 17, 2018


Stripe built a payments powerhouse by focusing on e-commerce. Now it’s following its customers into bricks and mortar.
Recode
Sep 17, 2018, 12:00pm EDT


Mobile Fraud Reaches 150 Million Global Attacks in First Half of 2018 with Attack Rates Rising 24% Year-Over-Year, Reveals ThreatMetrix
ThreatMetrix
Posted September 12, 2018


China Can’t Afford a Cashless Society
A mania for mobile payments is leaving the poor behind.
Foreign Policy
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018, 11:21 AM


British Airways site had credit card skimming code injected
Ars Technica
11/09/2018, 7:47 PM


Singapore payments vendor takes app global with UnionPay partnership
ZDNet
September 11, 2018


American Express offers an elite credit card for the super rich—thanks perhaps to Jerry Seinfeld
CNBC
11 September, 2011


California says gangs stole $1 million by credit card fraud
Fox News
11 September, 2018


Breaking with tradition, Lafayette Coney Island now taking credit cards for payment
DETROIT RISING
September 10, 2018 02:21 PM


Loblaw Grocery Chain Beats Canadian Banks in Credit-Card Survey
Bloomberg
September 10, 2018


What shoppers are buying in part payments
nzherald
9 Sep, 2018 2:00pm


Alipay Seeks Japanese Partners to Strengthen Cashless Experience across the Country for Tourists before 2020
Business Wire
September 04, 2018 11:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time


ADYEN REJUVENATES IN-STORE PAYMENT INTEGRATION WITH AN API POS SOLUTION POWERED BY NEXO STANDARDS
Nexo-Standards
05 SEPTEMBER 2018


Going Cashless: What Can We Learn from Sweden’s Experience?
Knowledge@Wharton
Aug 31, 2018


Hard Lessons (Thanks, Amazon) Breathe New Life Into Retail Stores
The New York Times
Sept. 3, 2018


Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales
Bloomberg
August 31, 2018


Facebook and Google Chase a New $1 Trillion Payments Market
Bloomberg
August 28, 2018


Berkshire Hathaway confirms investment in Paytm parent One97 Communications
Economic Times (India)
August 27, 2018, 21:54 IST


Starting In December, All Businesses Must Accept Plastic
Costa Rica
19 August 2018


linked2pay launches Instant Merchant Settlements
BusinessWire
August 21, 2018 08:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time


In a world first Australia will seek to eliminate card interchange
Retail Banker International
August 8, 2018


The cashless society myth: PayPal, Square, and bitcoin have not stopped cash from being a growth business
CNBC
Published 9:32 AM ET Mon, 6 Aug 2018


Visa Invests in Behalf to Support Small Business Financing
Business Wire
August 07, 2018 03:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time


Why American credit card companies can’t break into China
CNN Money
August 3, 2018: 10:21 AM ET