Best Buy, Adidas, Shopify and PacSun are just a handful of retailers starting to use Twitter’s ‘Buy Now’ button to sell products, digital goods or services directly within a Tweet.

As a new payments liability shift for merchants comes into force today, CardFlight, a mobile point of sale (POS) firm has gained approval from industry regulators to release its suite of mobile payment solutions.

Innovate Finance, the independent not-for-profit membership organisation that promotes and supports the UK’s FinTech industry, has sent a delegation to Manchester as part of an initiative to forge new innovation connections between London and regional hubs around the UK.

Adyen, the company that processes payments for companies such as Netflix, Facebook and Spotify, has received funding from a secretive wealth management company that counts Facebook and Twitter/Square CEOs as some of its clients.

The retail shopping app that gives users cash back when they shop, received $40m in Series C funding led by Netscape founder Jim Clark. The company said it will use the money to help aggressively scale its mobile loyalty platform.

With the rise of mobile payment services such as Apple Pay and Samsung Pay becoming appealing options to consumers, tokenisation technology is becoming more and more popular. This infographic from Visa breaks down the way the process works, as well as how and where the tokens can be used.