Mike Laven, CEO of Currency Cloud, speaks to PaymentEye at this year’s PayExpo about the B2B payments landscape, the issues surrounding payments security and London being a hub for FinTech innovation.

MasterCard and Samsung Pay have extended their partnership that leverages MasterCard Digital Enablement Service to deliver Samsung Pay in Europe.

Snapchat is reportedly working on a secret ‘special product’ with Hearst Corporation, which publishes magazines such as Esquire and Cosmopolitan.

Zooz, an omni-channel payments platform, has entered into a strategic partnership with Bitnet, an enterprise bitcoin payments processor. Merchants will now be able to accept bitcoin on the Zooz payment platform.

TD Bank, one of America’s largest lending firms, has signed a partnership agreement with MasterCard, enabling TD debit and prepaid card transactions to be processed through its Maestro network.

Ripple Labs, a payments technology company and supporter of the Ripple protocol, has named Michael S. Barr, former official at the US Department of the Treasury, as an advisor to the company.