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Top News In Payments: Mastercard CEO Pushes Back Against National Payments System; FCA Tells Credit Cards To Ease Up On Non-Payers

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In today’s top payments news, Mastercard’s CEO speaks out against a national payments system, the FCA tells credit card companies to be reasonable with customers in debt and the People’s Bank of China is prepared to inject $173 billion into the country to stabilize the economic damage wreaked by the coronavirus.

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Varo Achieves Milestone As First Consumer FinTech To Get National Charter

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On Friday (July 31), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced Varo Bank has been granted its full-service national bank charter. As a new national bank, Varo joins the world’s most respected system of financial institutions and has the opportunity to become a household name as many other national banks have become.”.

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Enterprise Cloud Platform Company Takes The B2B Venture Capital Lead

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The fundraising was headed up by Advent International via Advent Tech and Sunley House Capital, an Advent affiliate. Zenoti said it fuels over 12,000 companies in more than 50 nations. Caffeinated Capital headed up the round, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Craft Ventures, among others. CloudTrucks.

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Figure CEO: Figure Pay, National Bank Charter Will Boost Financial Inclusion

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He stated that the Figure Pay account will be interoperable with other accounts and payment methods (bypassing some of the vagaries of “closed” systems like MCX, now long-defunct). But a national charter would allow for a uniformity of presence and market scope. Looking Toward The Blockchain . The Charter Advantage .

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Passport, the technology business for city transit systems, raises $43 million

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The money, from Bain Capital Ventures, will go to help the company expand its payment and transaction services nationally and internationally. Read More.

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The European banking system is flat-lining

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Bank assets to GDO was over 500 per cent in the UK and over 600 per cent in Switzerland, reflecting in part the role of these nations as major financial centres channelling capital flows between third countries. A large banking system is not necessarily problematic. JP Morgan, the largest US bank, has over $2.4

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Sudan Banks And Visa Partner To Bring Payment Systems To Country

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Things are changing in Sudan as its banks partner with Visa to introduce payments systems after decades of being shunned by legitimate financial institutions (FIs) over talks that it housed terrorists and its leader performed illicit global activities, according to Reuters. Another six banks are waiting for approval.

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