Dispatch Issue: 6/2/21
Here is your link to the archived edition of MAC Dispatch for the week of June 2, 2021.
https://multibriefs.com/briefs/mac/MAC060221.php
Articles in this week's issue:
MAC UPDATES
INDUSTRY NEWS
- Crypto and blockchain startups set their sights on the global payment industry
- Black business owners turned to fintech to get U.S. pandemic aid
- FBI received record number of reports on online scams and investment fraud costing Americans billions
- Crypto traders defy China's crackdown with secretive bets
- Overdrafts, merchant fees and crypto: Why you can't have it both ways
- Visa takes a swipe in fintech, builds new online marketplace
- Why streamlined payment methods are important to attract a global gaming audience
- The EU plans a digital wallet for payments, passwords and IDs
- Government of Canada supports new technology to make electronic payment terminals accessible to persons with visual disabilities
- 21Shares to use CryptoCompare's technology for its settlement pricing
- Cash to account for just seven percent of in-store purchases by 2024
- Solving B2B's payment and data problem
- Mogo announces agreement to acquire additional shares in Canada's leading crypto platform, Coinsquare
- Kalamint, Virtualware bring VR and NFTs together
- Circle raises $440 million
- African fintech OPay is reportedly raising $400 million at over $1.5 billion valuation
- Sift to acquire Chargeback to provide merchants protection against payment fraud
- Idemia enters the Japanese payment cards industry as it launches its first banking card
- Mall of America on the connected mall's future