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Toronto has all the ingredients necessary to become a major fintech hub but is failing to compete with the likes of London and New York because it has not developed a proper ecosystem, according to a new report.
06 November 2015
Wells Fargo is investing up to $500,000 in each of three Bay Area startups that have won a place in the Fall 2015 class of its semi-annual startup accelerator scheme.
05 November 2015
Santander InnoVentures – the $100 million fintech venture capital fund of Santander Group – is launching an open competition to encourage and support early stage startups using distributed ledger technologies in the financial services industry.
The vast majority of retail banks around the world have increased their investments in disruptive technologies this year as they seek to fend off a surge of new technology, telco and fintech competitors, according to research from Infosys Finacle and Efma.
Italy's UniCredit is to simultaneously run three 24-hour mobile and wearable finance hackthons in Milan, Vienna and Munich.
ING is exploring the possibility of opening a digital bank in China through a partnership with Bank of Beijing.
04 November 2015
Australian mobile invoicing outfit Invoice2go has raised $15 million in fresh funding and secured a deal with payments outfit Stripe as it bids to take on the likes of Square and PayPal in small business financing.
Investments in non-bank fintech companies across Asia-Pacific has quadrupled over the past year – from about $880 million in all of 2014 to nearly $3.5 billion in just the first nine months of 2015, according to a new report by Accenture
National Australia Bank is calling on third-party developers to use its API to create innovative - and scalable - financial applications over the course of a three-day fintech hackathon.
USAA has teamed up with Coinbase to test a feature which enables members to check their bitcoin balances through the online army bank's website and mobile app.
03 November 2015
Technology industry leaders Amazon, Apple, Google, Intuit and PayPal have formed a coalition to lobby for policy initiatives that will further the development of innovation in the financial services industry.
A research team from Swedish-based marketing and technology agency DigitasLBi has demonstrated a world-first bitcoin payment from a chip implant.
Hedge fund manager Man Group is challenging bright young graduates to write gaming code using the Python programming language with a view to recruiting the best entrants for an eight-week internship.
Dutch banks are banding together on a digital identification service which will let online customers use their login details to access other commercial and government sites.
02 November 2015
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) has become the latest backer of an accelerator programme designed to nurture the island's fintech community.
Digital banking startup Mondo is looking for 3000 people prepared to test its prototype debit card and iPhone app, while issuing a warning that "you will experience problems with this product".
Fidelity has launched an app for the revamped Apple TV, enabling investors to keep tabs on the markets via the idiot box.
30 October 2015
Passwords could soon be a thing of the past according to speakers at this week's Money 20/20 event in Las Vegas.
A consortium of UK startup bosses have petitioned the government over plans to curb the numbers of skilled migrants, warning that such a clampdown could instead curb the growth of the UK's digital economy.
29 October 2015
MasterCard has finally dipped a toe in the crypto-currency pool, joining a host of other big name investors backing new bitcoin incubator Digital Currency Group (DCG).
28 October 2015
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