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SIA, JP Morgan | March 06, 2020

Italian payments giant SIA has hired JP Morgan as financial advisor for all 'extraordinary transactions' - including a possible IPO. The firm, which is controlled by state lender CDP Equity, confirmed last month that it was beginning the listing process. It said then that it could issue ordinary shares on the Mercato Telematico Azionario market by the summer, although a merger with another payment’s player was not ruled out. Reporting its 2019 results, SIA says consolidated revenue...

CBA | April 10, 2020

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has recorded a surge in mobile payment transactions at the POS, as consumers reach for their phones to avoid touching PIN pads during the Coronavirus outbreak. Latest analysis from the bank, which draws on Visa and Mastercard data, has found digital wallet users in Australia spent $1 billion in a record number of transactions in March 2020, a 17% increase from the same month last year. Overall there were 36 million digital wallet transactions made in March - compri...

finextra | April 02, 2020

Hauck & Aufhäuser, one of Germany’s oldest banks, recently announced a partnership with savings marketplace Raisin, integrating the platform’s products into its own ecosystem. This gives the private bank’s customers access to Raisin’s array of savings and investments products and earn “an interest rate on their liquidity holdings well above market average”, according to Dr Holger Sepp, a member of Hauck & Aufhäuser’s management board. U...

Nacha | February 07, 2020

US clearing house Nacha is to use blockchain technology to build Phixius, an online platform to ease the exchange of payment-related information between companies. Traditionally, the exchange of payment-related information has consisted of multiple bilateral agreements, which are costly to administer and often run manually, resulting in misdirected payments and opportunities for fraud. The new online platform will integrate technology, rules and participants to streamline the payments process, u...