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Azul Systems Joins Eclipse Foundation

Azul Systems, a specialist in Java runtime solutions, has joined the open source Eclipse Foundation. The firm sees it as a way to encourage open mobile and embedded technologies that will help drive the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT).

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MasterCard to buy analytics house APT for $600 million

MasterCard is to pay $600 million to acquire Big Data analytics outfit Applied Predictive Technologies.

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State Street, Berkeley and Stanford form data science consortium

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and State Street Global Exchange today announced a collaboration to establish the Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk (CDAR), a new research center focused on applying advanced data-science techniques to manage and mitigate economic and financial risk.

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MasterCard launches Girls4Tech education programme in India

MasterCard today announced the launch of Girls4Tech, its signature education program to drive interest and encourage STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers for middle school girls in India.

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Santander Innoventures invests $5m in MyCheck

The Israel-based MyCheck is the first fintech firm to receive a major investment from the $100 million Santander Innoventures fund.

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Six undertakes hackathon talent challenge for new fintech incubator

Swiss financial infrastructure provider SIX Group is running a weekend hackathon with a view to acquiring new talent ahead of the launch of a fintech incubator in May.

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Wall Street heavyweights join $130m funding round for big data firm Dataminr

Some of the biggest names on Wall Street, including John Mack and Vikram Pandit, have joined a $130 million funding round for Dataminr, a startup that trawls through tweets and other data sources to create alerts for clients such as banks.

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BBVA: "We are building the best digital bank of the 21st Century"

Spanish bank BBVA has set its sights on building "the best digital bank of the 21st century", according to remarks by chairman Fransisco Gonzalez at the company's annual shareholder meeting in Bilbao.

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Big data and virtual currencies leading to massive changes in cybercrime landscape - Europol

A decline of traditional hierarchical criminal groups and networks will be accompanied by the expansion of a virtual criminal underground made up of individual criminal entrepreneurs, who come together on a project basis.

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Finextra Future Money returns for 2015

Created as the premier event bringing both the most innovative minds in banking together with the exploding FinTech community, Finextra Future Money returns to London on April 21 and 22 for an exciting two day event.

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Finovate Europe 2015 - Day 1 roundup

Crowdfunding, bitcoin, identity and security, and, of course, personal finance management dominated the first day of Finovate Europe in London. Finextra watched the demos, followed the tweets and spoke to the players. Here's what caught our eye.

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Power in numbers: Two Capital One staff charged for mining database to predict stock prices

Two Capital One employees have been charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission after they mined customer transaction data to successfully predict stock performance.

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Goldman leads $56 million investment in Big Data firm Antuit

Antuit Holdings Pte Ltd (“Antuit”), a global, Big Data solutions company headquartered in Singapore, announced today it has secured an investment of up to $56 million led by Goldman Sachs (GS), a leading global investment bank, and Zodius Capital (“Zodius’), an original founding investor.

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North American banks disillusioned with big data analytics - Aite survey

Despite the hype surrounding big data, three quarters of North American bankers are dissatisfied with analytics technology, according to research from Aite Group.

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AmEx creates Silicon Valley tech hub

American Express is opening a technology hub in Silicon Valley that will house a team building up the card giant's capabilities in big data, cloud computing and mobile.

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Insufficient data the greatest obstacle to better risk management - bank execs

Despite ever-growing volumes of data, just over half of banks still think that not having enough is the greatest obstacle to better risk management, according to a survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

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BBVA acquires big data startup Madiva

BBVA has acquired Spanish big data and cloud computing startup Madiva Soluciones as part of its strategy to buy up companies that are developing new technologies and disruptive business models.

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Goldman takes stake in data analytics platform Kensho

Goldman Sachs has led a $15 million investment round in Kensho, a startup that is seeking to supplant human equity analysts with intelligent big data mining bots.

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BNY Mellon establishes Silicon Valley innovation centre

Investment management and services group BNY Mellon has set up an innovation centre in Silicon Valley as it seeks to harness the power of big data, cloud computing and the Internet of Things.

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PostFinance taps SAS big data tech for multichannel marketing

One of Switzerland's largest banks, PostFinance, is using big data analytics from SAS to engage individually with hundreds of thousands of customers.