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23 October 2026

Best way to take card payments during the UK festive season

Queues, patchy signal, international visitors and slow payouts: see how UK events, shops and restaurants keep card payments moving this festive season.

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Viva.com and Extenda Retail logos displayed side by side, representing their retail payments partnership.
  • Press release
5 March 2025

Viva.com & Extenda Retail Advance Cloud Retail Solutions

Viva.com, the 1st Tech Bank in Europe for Businesses, has entered a strategic partnership with checkout software solutions provider Extenda Retail, aiming to provide retailers with the latest cloud-native warehouse-to-payments technology.

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  • Payment security
31 October 2024

Confirmation of Payee (CoP)

CoP is a name checking service designed to help protect you against fraud by verifying recipient account details before a payment is made via the Faster Payment Service.

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  • Press release
16 September 2024

Viva.com and Alipay+ Expand Partnership for Retail in Europe

Merchants in all 24 European markets Viva.com operates in are now eligible to enable Alipay+, allowing global tourists to conveniently pay with 15 international e-wallets and access promotions. This collaboration kicks off in time for the upcoming wave of inbound tourism to Europe for ‘Golden Week’ in October.

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