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Banks have suffered a number of high-profile and costly IT glitches in recent times. Most notable among these was the ongoing saga at TSB when it tried to migrate its systems over to new parent company Banco Sabadell. But Barclays, RBS and…

Visa has agreed to buy start-up fintech Plaid, a group that connects firms to customers’ bank accounts, in one of the largest recent fintech deals made by the payments firm.

On the back of last week’s news that PayPal decidedly pulled out of the alliance backing Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency project, Mastercard, Visa, eBay, Stripe and Mercado Pago have also announced their withdrawal from Libra.

We’re in the midst of a business banking revolution. In the past, legacy structures and slow banking processes were commonplace, with innovation and new technologies from the retail banking world rarely being available for businesses. 

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has announced the launch of a Visa debit card, which will allow users in the UK and EU to spend their crypto assets directly from their Coinbase accounts to make real-world purchases and…