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MasterCard buys loyalty rewards specialist Truaxis

MasterCard has acquired Truaxis, a US firm that provides credit and debit card-linked offers to consumers through merchants and banks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Monitise FY losses widen despite revenues doubling

UK mobile money outfit Monitise has again posted a substantial full year loss, despite more than doubling its revenue. Meanwhile, the firm has struck a deal with Bank of China to develop m-payments services in Hong Kong.

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Scotiabank agrees C$3.1bn ING Direct Canada acquisition

Dutch bank ING has struck a C$3.1 billion deal to sell its online Canadian unit to Scotiabank, raising cash to pay back money lent by the Dutch government at the height of the financial crisis.

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CBA reaps the benefits of $1.1 billion technology upgrade programme

Commonwealth Bank of Australia says it is beginning to reap the rewards of its $1.1 billion core banking modernisation programme, with a measurable increase in productivity contributing towards a $7.1 billion profit for the year ending 30 June.

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Mobile innovators Square and Starbucks team up

Starbucks has inked a deal with Square that sees the coffee chain commit to using the start-up's mobile payments technology in its stores, entrust it with all US card transaction processing and stump up $25 million towards a funding round.

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ING ponders sale of UK and Canadian online banks

ING is weighing up the sale of its online banks in the UK and Canada as it looks to raise cash to pay back money lent by the Dutch government at the height of the financial crisis.

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RBS sets aside £125m to cover IT meltdown costs

The Royal Bank of Scotland has set aside £125 million to cover costs resulting from the technology failure that hit RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank customers in June.

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Thomson Reuters Q2 hit by struggling finance sector

Thomson Reuters says its financial and risk business continued to suffer in the second quarter thanks to "growing headwinds" in the FS sector.

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UBS threatens Nasdaq OMX legal action as $357m Facebook IPO loss hits Q2 profits

UBS has warned Nasdaq OMX that it could take legal action to recover the CHF349 million ($357 million) it lost thanks to the exchange operator's "gross mishandling" of the Facebook IPO.

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TS-Associates buys Correlix

TS-Associates has acquired the assets of latency management service provider Correlix. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Data biz drives Nasdaq OMX Q2 profit rise

Nasdaq OMX posted a small second quarter net income rise as strong market data revenues helped to offset weak trading volumes.

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M-Via goes Boom with $17 million financing round

Text remittance outfit m-Via has been re-christened as Boom Financial after securing a $17 million financing round led by Digicel.

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The Currency Cloud raises £2m

The Currency Cloud, a UK-based start-up offering foreign exchange payments automation, has raised $2 million in funding from Notion Capital.

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Temenos CEO Dubois out as license revenues plummet

Shares in Temenos plunged 20% in morning trading on news that the Swiss core banking vendor's CEO is quitting after just a year into the job for "personal reasons" while second quarter license revenue is down more than a third.

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Payment startups Stripe and Paydiant secure funding

US payment startups Stripe and Paydiant have both completed multi-million dollar series b funding rounds.

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Thomson Reuters to buy FXall

Thomson Reuters has agreed to acquire multi-bank electronic foreign exchange platform FX Alliance (FXall) for around $625 million in cash.

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Fino buys Nokia's Indian mobile money business

Fino, a Mumbai-based financial services provider, has acquired the Indian mobile money service Finnish handset maker Nokia shut down earlier this year.

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MasterCard joins EUR25m iZettle funding round

Swedish start-up iZettle, which provides technology that turns mobile phones into card payment terminals, has raised EUR25 million in a series b funding round as it prepares to launch across Europe.

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Metro Bank raises £126m to fund new branches

Metro Bank has raised £126 million as it prepares to step up its assault on the high street with a raft of new branches in London and the South East.

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Tesco Bank sales dip as resources diverted to tech migration

Tesco Bank sales dipped by 3.7% for the first quarter 2012 as the high street retailer diverted resources to completing its migration to a new technology platform.