Mastercard buys Nets unit for $3.19b in largest deal
Mastercard Inc. agreed to buy a payments platform owned by Denmark-based Nets for 2.85 billion euros ($3.19 billion), using its ...
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Former Amazon worker is accused in cloud hack of Capital One
Capital One Financial said data from about 100 million people in the U.S. was illegally accessed after prosecutors accused a ...
Goldman Sachs explores creating a digital coin like JPMorgan’s
David Solomon may take a leaf out of Jamie Dimon’s book by exploring a digital coin for payments. Goldman Sachs ...
Facebook wants its cryptocurrency to one day rival the greenback
Facebook Inc. unveiled plans for a new cryptocurrency that the social-media giant hopes will one day trade on a global ...
Facebook could be for crypto what AOL was for internet adoption
Facebook Inc., a centralized corporate giant with a history of customer data use controversies, is an unlikely candidate for bringing ...
Startup Brex is raising money at a valuation above $2 billion
Just two years after it was founded, Brex Inc. is close to securing new funding at a valuation north of ...
Silicon Valley’s Plaid heads to the U.K., undeterred by Brexit
Fintech startup Plaid Inc. is expanding its footprint into the U.K., a region it believes could eventually match the U.S. ...
A WhatsApp Rumor Challenges a Challenger Bank
It was only a matter of time before confidence in the financial system would be tested by false information on ...
SoftBank Makes $800 Million Bet on U.K. Financier Greensill
SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund is betting $800 million on Greensill in its second big investment in a U.K. financial ...
Facebook’s Blockchain Team Is Assembling Its Own Mini-PayPal Mafia
The inner workings of Facebook Inc.’s blockchain team are still shrouded in secrecy, but it’s staffing up, according to people ...
