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PayPal is to start issuing debit cards in Europe after negotiating a deal with Visa. Under the new arrangement, PayPal will offer PayPal-branded Visa debit cards which are expected to appeal to [...]

TSB Bank is to introduce iris recognition to its mobile banking app from September 2017. Customers will need the latest Samsung Galaxy S8 to use the new authentication method Monzo has announced [...]

RBR has reported that the number of payment cards worldwide increased by 8% to 14bn in 2016. According to RBR’s Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2022, UnionPay, Visa and Mastercard [...]

Ashmore, the London-based asset manager which specialises in emerging market debt, has posted net inflows of $1.2bn for Q2 2017. Assets under management rose 5% quarter on quarter to $58.7bn [...]

Just Eat has partnered with Funding Circle to offer loans of up to £60,000 to the 30,000 UK restaurants servicing its takeaway app Santander has said it is confident it will recover lost ground [...]

Bank of England has been told by a number of small banks that they could be forced to retreat from doing business in either the UK or Europe should Britain leave the EU with no deal in 2019 [...]

Sachem Head Capital Management, a New York-based activist investor, has secretly amassed a 2.3% holding in Worldpay through contracts-for-difference. The news came as the payments processor was [...]

Visa Europe has reportedly offered Charlotte Hogg the post of chief executive. Ms Hogg was effectively forced to resign as deputy governor of the Bank of England in March 2017, after failing to [...]

Barclays will be notified within two weeks on whether it faces a second set of criminal fraud charges over its emergency 2008 cash call with Qatari investors, according to the FT. Barclays’ [...]

Boston Consulting Group and the Association for Financial Markets in Europe have warned that Europe’s SMEs will be the biggest losers if banks face significant restructuring costs and extra [...]