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MasterCard and Samsung have partnered to develop an app that enables consumers to order groceries direct from the Korean electronics firm's new range of smart refrigerators.
05 January 2016
Bank-backed blockchain collaboration outfit R3 is in the market for talented developers, designers and architects capable of working on "some of the thorniest problems in financial technology".
Pascal Bouvier, newly installed as a venture partner with Santander Innoventures fintech venture fund, dusts off his crystal ball and peers into the not-too-distant fintech future.
04 January 2016
Nasdaq is claiming a major step forward in the use of blockchain technology in capital markets after documenting a successful private securities transaction via its distributed ledger-based Linq platform.
As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2015, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 4 January 2016.
23 December 2015
Menno van Leeuwen, head of the innovation centre focus team at ABN Amro discusses the challenges and opportunities for banks working in collaboration with fintech startups.
TransferWise may have built its reputation by bashing traditional banks for overcharging customers on currency transfers, but that's not stopping the London-based startup from sleeping with the enemy by embedding its services into their online platforms.
22 December 2015
AXA's $250M venture capital fund dedicated to emerging strategic innovations in insurance and financial services has added four new companies to its portfolio, marking a total of $6 million in seven US startups since the fund was launched in February of this year.
Wealthy young adults are warming to financial services provided by non-banks, with 15.5% of digitally-active consumers trying out new P2P and online models for payments and investment advice over the past six months
Almost 1000 distinct venture capital investors have participated in the fintech feeding frenzy that has gripped the financial services sector over the past three years.
18 December 2015
The craze for opening fintech accelerators has spread from the banking sector to the vendor community, as FIS throws its hat into the ring with the launch of a new facility in association with The Venture Center.
Singapore's DBS Bank has built a huge "learning centre", complete with simulation branch, to future-proof staffers for the digital age.
Queensland's Auswide Bank is to commit $60 million in funding to Australian peer-to-peer lender MoneyPlace in return for a 20% stake in the business.
17 December 2015
The R3-led blockchain consortium is to close applications to new member banks as 12 more financial institutions sign up and will instead concentrate its efforts on recruiting non-banks to the coalition.
Nomura Research Institute (NRI) is to conduct a proof of concept (PoC) test of the application of blockchain technology to the core architecture of Japanese Internet bank SBI Sumishin.
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) is to build a 'Digital Design Studio' to improve the user experience for its digital and mobile banking applications.
UK digital challenger bank Atom is to use face and voice biometrics as core credentials for customers logging in to banking apps.
16 December 2015
Banks across the world are set to significantly increase spending on new payment technology in 2016, according to a study by analyst house Ovum.
Investment in fintech firms is expected to jump 66% to over US$20bn in 2015, with a fresh batch of Chinese firms sharing the rewards, according to a new report released by KPMG and Australia's H2 Ventures.
15 December 2015
Sir David Walker, a former executive director of the Bank of England, joins the ranks of financial luminaries clambering aboard the blockchain bandwagon by joining cryptographic payments and settlement infrastructure startup SETL as chairman.
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