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Two months after Mastercard lawyers urged an English appeals court to follow the lead of antitrust judges that had tossed out a multi-billion pound class action lawsuit from U.K. consumers over credit card charges, that appeals court has ruled against the credit card giant.

Allison Dukes says she will not be joining the combined company because she wants to remain in Atlanta, where she is involved with several civic and philanthropic organizations. The merged company will be headquartered in Charlotte, N.C.

French card issuer Prepaid Financial Services has partnered with Google to allow its customers in the U.K. to add their prepaid cards to the Google Pay mobile wallet.

With the U.K. government still at stalemate over Brexit, the prospect of leaving the European Union without a deal remains a very real possibility. Despite some recent agreements, this could have major implications for the U.K. payments industry.

Contactless transit fare systems are drawing lots of investment despite several false starts in the U.S. But new numbers out of London show there are clear and multiple benefits if the infrastructure can catch up.

The speed of technological change is forcing Britain’s retail payments authority Pay.UK to redesign its core infrastructure.

The Jacksonville-based credit union kicked off 2019 by buying a bank and expanding into Georgia, but VyStar's moves may hold lessons for CUs far beyond the southeast.

International payments provider Currencies Direct is offering a new online platform for batch payments to help clients making multiple payments in different currencies.

Visa’s proposal to buy Earthport — which already survived a brief bidding war with Mastercard — is getting a closer look by the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog group.

Samsung Electronics France is partnering with French card issuer Prepaid Financial Services to allow its line of PCS Mastercard prepaid cards to be loaded onto the Samsung Pay wallet.