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Sunday competitor Qlub emerges with 17M Seed round from Cherry and Point Nine

Ivorian ecommerce startup ANKA formerly Afrikrea raises 62M preSeries A

Payment service Toss becomes Koreas newest unicorn after raising 80M

Egyptian fintech Sympl raises 6M for its save now pay later service

Jiko announces partnership to launch a banking app for the transgender community

Costco now supports Apple Pay across all of its US stores

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

The next phase of WeChat

The next generation of global payments: Afterpay Square

Gates Foundations new opensource software helps impoverished communities around the world access financial services

Apple Pay is coming to Target Taco Bell Speedway and two other US chains

Wealthsimple raises 610M at a 4B valuation

Venmo adds a checkcashing feature waives fees for stimulus checks

Revolut adds Apple Pay support in 16 markets

Apple Pay launches in Malaysia

Google to offer checking accounts in partnership with banks starting next year

Payrails emerges from stealth with 64M led by a16z to build the OS for payments

China Roundup: facial recognition lawsuit and cashless payments for foreigners

Ant Group buys Singapores 2C2P to further global payments ambitions

Citcon raises 30M to make paying with mobile wallets as easy as paying with a credit card

TrueLayer nabs 130M at a 1B valuation as open banking rises as a viable option to card networks

Square takes aim at Stripe PayPal with new payments kit for mobile software developers

Venmo adds a check cashing feature waives fees for stimulus checks

Ants global play is to be a payments aggregator and it now reaches 1B users

WeChat ewallet teams up with Line to target Japans 7M Chinese tourists

Flutterwave backs UK fintech Dapio in 34M round for its contactless payments play

Klarna offers Pay Now option in US Klarna Card coming soon

Ivorian fintech Julaya raises 2M to digitize business payments in Francophone Africa

Grab the Uber rival in Southeast Asia is now officially also a digital payments company

LemonBox which brings US vitamins to Chinese consumers raises 2M

Alibaba rival JDcom plays the longgame on technology investment

Indias PhonePe tops 12 billion valuation in new funding

Apple Pay finally launches in Germany

In the buy now pay later wars PayPal is primed for dominance

Fueled by pandemic contactless mobile payments to surpass half of all smartphone users in US by 2025

Foreign visitors to China can finally go cashless like locals

Google update will allow digital Covid19 vaccination cards and test results to be stored on Android devices

Apple Pay Cash launches in beta today letting you send and receive cash in Messages

WhenThens nocode payments platform attracts 6M from European VCs Stride and Cavalry

PayPal debuts Grant Payments to shift charitable giving from paper checks to electronic transfers

Carrier billing startup Boku to raise 45M in London IPO November 20

3 Major Technology Trends to Streamline Efficiency and Productivity

French peertopeer payment app Lydia adds Apple Pay support

India unseats China as Asias top fintech funding source

Nigerian businesses can now accept Apple Pay on Paystack

Egyptian fintech Paymob raises 50M led by PayPal Ventures and Kora Capital

SimbaPay launches Kenya to China payment service via WeChat

All the reasons why you should launch a credit or debit card

Over 5000 Wells Fargo ATMs now support cardfree access via Apple Pay and other mobile wallets

Flutterwave and Alipay partner on payments between Africa and China