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China Roundup: facial recognition lawsuit and cashless payments for foreigners

Venmo adds a check cashing feature waives fees for stimulus checks

Wealthsimple raises 610M at a 4B valuation

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

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

Apple Pay launches in Malaysia

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

African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises 30M backed by Jeff Bezos

The next phase of WeChat

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

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

Flutterwave and Alipay partner on payments between Africa and China

Costco now supports Apple Pay across all of its US stores

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

SimbaPay launches Kenya to China payment service via WeChat

Ant Group buys Singapores 2C2P to further global payments ambitions

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

Apple enters the BNPL market as regulation competition intensify

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

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

French peertopeer payment app Lydia adds Apple Pay support

Payment service Toss becomes Koreas newest unicorn after raising 80M

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

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

Apple Pay finally launches in Germany

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

The next generation of global payments: Afterpay Square

Banked raises 20M Series A led by Bank of America and Edenred for US expansion

Highnote emerges from stealth with 54M and a plan to take on Marqeta in the world of card issuing as a service

Paystand banks 50M to make B2B payments cashless and with no fees

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

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

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

Naspersowned PayU doubles down on India with 70M deal to buy Wibmo

Foreign visitors to China can finally go cashless like locals

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

Mobile Payments Market Size Gross Margin Analysis Emerging Technologies Future Trends Sales Revenue Competitive Landscape and Opportunity Assessment by Forecast 2023

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

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

Ivorian ecommerce startup ANKA formerly Afrikrea raises 62M preSeries A

PalmPay raised 100M Series A last August claims to have 5 million users

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

Flipkart Group launches payments app Supermoney in fintech push

Klarna offers Pay Now option in US Klarna Card coming soon

PicPay the Brazilian mobile payments platform files for an IPO on Nasdaq

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

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

Messenger adds Venmolike QR codes for persontoperson payments in the US

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