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CB Bank to issue JCB-branded debit cards in Myanmar

Myanmar-based Co-Operative Bank (CB Bank), Myanmar Payment Union Public (MPU) and JCB International have announced that CB Bank will issue JCB debit cards starting 1 December 2016.

VersaPay to offload merchant services portfolio to BluePay Canada

VersaPay, a Canadian payment processing and payment systems company, has agreed to sell all the assets of its merchant services portfolio to BluePay Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of BluePay Processing, for cash consideration of C$10m.

OTI launches payments ring

Israeli mobile technology company On Track Innovations (OTI) has launched its latest wearable payment device –the Ring of Things.

FIS teams up with Early Warning to expand real-time P2P payments offering

Financial services technology firm FIS has partnered with Early Warning to enable financial institutions to offer faster person-to-person (P2P) payment services to their clients using latter’s Zelle Network service.

New fintech hub to launch in Sweden

A new financial technology hub is set to be launched in Stockholm in order to accelerate and promote the development of fintech, insurtech, and regtech startups in Sweden.

Brits spent £2bn using Visa cards on Black Friday

Britons have spent more than £2bn using Visa cards on Black Friday 2016, a 13% increase compared to the previous year, according to the figures released by Visa.

Citi rolls out in-app replacement credit card tracker

Citi has introduced an in-app replacement credit card tracker that allows its credit cardholders to track the steps of their replacement card delivery in real-time.

MasterCard brings ‘Selfie Pay’ technology to Latin America

MasterCard has launched its Identity Check Mobile solution in Brazil and Mexico that allows cardholders to verify online payment by scanning their fingerprint or by taking a selfie.

MasterCard, Pine Labs to promote contactless payments in India

MasterCard has teamed up with Pine Labs, an India-based payment facilitator for electronic point of sale (POS) solutions, to launch over 26,000 contactless terminals across the key merchant stores in the country over the next one year.

ING ditches Twyp payment app in the Netherlands

Dutch banking group ING is set to discontinue its Twyp mobile payments app in the Netherlands after it failed to gain traction with customers.