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Former Credit Suisse banker becomes Coinfloor chairman

London-based bitcoin exchange Coinfloor has brought in Adam Knight, a former senior manager at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs, as executive chairman.

11 July 2014

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Sage Pay wins ZappHack with location-aware ticketing app

After 36 gruelling hours of coding, designing and testing, Sage Pay's three-person team has emerged victorious at the ZappHack Revive Retail hackathon in London this week.

10 July 2014

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Mt. Gox CEO auctions bitcoins.com domain; promises to share proceeds with creditors

Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles is putting the domain name bitcoins.com up for auction, promising to use some of the proceeds to reimburse users of his failed virtual currency exchange.

09 July 2014

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European banks told to avoid bitcoin

Europe's financial institutions should steer clear of virtual currencies such as bitcoin until a regulatory regime is in place, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned.

04 July 2014

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Intuit to process bitcoin payments with QuickBooks Online

Intuit is to make bitcoin payments an option for the 624,000 small businesses who use its cloud-based QuickBooks Online financial management software.

27 June 2014

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Canada brings in bitcoin regulations

Canada's parliament has passed a bill bringing in comprehensive regulation of bitcoin and other digital currencies.

24 June 2014

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Ditch legal tender to unleash bitcoin - think tank

The concept of legal tender should be abolished and private money should enjoy a level playing field that enables the likes of bitcoin to compete with state-backed currencies, a new think tank report suggests.

18 June 2014

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US govt to auction Silk Road bitcoins

The US Marshals' office is auctioning off nearly 30,000 bitcoin seized last year from the Silk Road dark web marketplace.

13 June 2014

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Expedia accepts bitcoin for hotel bookings

Expedia has struck a deal with Coinbase which will see the online travel agency accept bitcoin for hotel bookings.

12 June 2014

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Dutch central bank warns banks off Bitcoin

The Dutch central bank has issued a warning to the nation's banks about the perils of dabbling in bitcoin-related businesses.

04 June 2014

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Bitcoin to have 'profound' impact on trust-based markets - Wedbush analysts

Bitcoin may currently be going through an "adoption chasm" but the crypto-currency will have a profound societal effect, shaking up payments markets and other industries over the next few years, analysts from Wedbush Securities have predicted.

30 May 2014

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QuickCoin integrates bitcoin wallet with Facebook

US startup QuickCoin has launched a bitcoin wallet app that lets users send the crypto-currency to their Facebook friends.

27 May 2014

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Ripple price plunges on co-founders sell-off plans

The price of the Ripple native digital currency has plummeted after Ripple Labs co-founder Jed McCaleb revealed that he plans to sell off his entire massive holding.

23 May 2014

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Bitcoin not a threat to banking system...yet

Bitcoin is still more of a curiosity than a threat to the banking system but in the long term the crypto-currency could have a pronounced impact on payments, according to a group of advisers to the US Federal Reserve.

20 May 2014

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Circle bids to take bitcoin mainstream

Circle Internet Financial has unveiled a free platform for buying, storing and paying with bitcoin, promising to bring the crypto-currency to the masses.

16 May 2014

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BitPay shoots for the moon with $30 million funding round

Digital currency startup BitPay has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round, valuing the company at $160 million.

13 May 2014

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SEC issues alert on bitcoin risks

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is warning investors that getting involved in bitcoin is a risky business that could leave them open to fraud.

08 May 2014

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Robocoin rebrands bitcoin ATMs as 'bank branches'

Bitcoin ATM outfit Robocoin is playing fast and loose with banking terminology by rebranding its machines as bank branches and making a concerted play for the remittance market.

02 May 2014

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Finextra Future Money provokes strong views on fintech innovation

Fraud is good, Pingit is rubbish and Swift will be dead within three years. There was no shortage of controversial and provocative views at a lively Finextra Future Money conference this week at Canary Wharf's Level39.

02 May 2014

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Live: Finextra Future Money, day two

Welcome back to the Finextra Future Money liveblog where we'll be keeping you abreast of all the news and views as leading figures from the fintech world gather at Level39 in Canary Wharf to explore the new wave of innovation sweeping across the financial services sector.

01 May 2014