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Marqeta shuts down Australia operations

Payments Dive

The modern card-issuing company is closing its outpost in Australia as part of its cost-cutting campaign.

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Google Teams With Portland’s Public Transport Operator TriMet for First Android Pay Virtual Transit Card

Bank Innovation

Here comes the world’s first virtual transit card in Android Pay, well at least according to Google and Portland’s public transport operator TriMet, who teamed up to unveil the Hop Fastpass.

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Mumbai Bus Operator To Test India’s National Transit Card

PYMNTS

India’s One Nation One Card will be test-piloted with Mumbai bus operator BEST in November, NFCWorld reported on Tuesday (Aug. The national transit card system uses a bank-issued card that will run on India’s RuPay payments network, the news outlet said. The pilot is to see how the system would work.

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Wirecard Makes Deals To Sell Its Brazil, Britain Operations

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As Wirecard AG’s global operations close following its bankruptcy filing, the German payment company has agreed to sell what’s left, the Financial Times reported. In addition, he noted that the sale of some of the company’s operations in Britain and North America could be announced soon. billion euros ($2.1

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Amex Cleared To Operate In China

PYMNTS

The post did not say when Amex would start operations in the country. In November of 2018, Amex got approval to clear card payments by the PBOC , making it the first company of its kind to get access to what will become the largest card network this year. Lianlian counts PayPal and Apple among its strategic partners.

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Corporate Card Innovators Dive Into Virtualization

PYMNTS

As FinTechs and other financial service providers drive commercial card adoption, virtual card technology becomes an increasingly popular focus of innovation initiatives, particularly as corporates demand solutions to support a remote workforce. Barclaycard Debuts V-Card For Expense Management.

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Deep Dive: How Businesses Are Preparing Their Workers, Payments Operations For A Digital B2B Future

PYMNTS

This month’s Deep Dive examines how mobile and contactless payment options are poised to reshape the corporate payments ecosystem as well as how virtual cards can help businesses adapt their operations to the digital-first payments ecosystem that has emerged. . Reshaping Business Payments . Much of the U.S.