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Ant Financial is planning to raise around $5bn in a funding round expected to value the Alibaba payments affiliate at more than $100bn Coinbase, which has blamed recent changes to the coding of [...]

Amazon is to open its first checkout-free grocery store to the public this week. Amazon Go, in Seattle, has been tested by staff for the past year. Atos has announced three new initiatives to [...]

Google has announced that it is bringing together all the different ways to pay with Google, including Android Pay and Google Wallet, into a single brand, called Google Pay LG has announced that [...]

Alibaba and Honda have signed an agreement to offer online payments to drivers for fuel, parking and other services in China Alipay has released research showing that 82% of the transactions on [...]

Accenture has reported that nearly a third of retailers are ready to start taking advantage of Open Banking reforms in order to provide services such as faster refunds, in-store access to [...]

Money Mail research has found 35 lenders, including Barclays, HSBC, NatWest and Halifax, have either increased mortgage rates or withdrawn their best deals since the beginning of October 2017 [...]

Digital Trade Chain Consortium has agreed to set up a joint venture company incorporated in Ireland to manage the roll out of Digital Trade Chain. The joint venture, which has also welcomed Banco [...]

Equifax has admitted that UK consumers were affected by the data breach that ran between mid-May and 29 July 2017. The company did not say how many were British consumers were impacted, but it is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]