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Digital beer mats driving customers to drink

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Digital beer mats driving customers to drink

NFC chip marketing firm Tamoco has partnered with Carlsberg and Uber on a range of 'digital beer mats' that will ply you with free drinks and then order a taxi to take you home.

CME venture fund finds value in big data

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CME venture fund finds value in big data

Liquidity Ventures, the strategic tech innovation fund set up by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, has completed its fourth transaction this year with an investment in big data company Powerlytics.

Accenture brings Fintech Innovation Lab to Dublin

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Accenture brings Fintech Innovation Lab to Dublin

Accenture's Fintech Innovation Lab is landing in Ireland, with banking and tech giants throwing their weight behind the Dublin-based accelerator programme.

CaixaBank to distribute contactless wristbands through branch network

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CaixaBank to distribute contactless wristbands through branch network

CaixaBank is to distribute contactless wristbands from all of its branches after issuing its first batch of the wearable payments technology to select customers over the summer months.

Pay-by-fridge: Canadians ready for mobile money and more

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Pay-by-fridge: Canadians ready for mobile money and more

Forget mobile payments, many Canadians are ready to shop through their internet-enabled fridges and chips implanted in their fingers.

Sydney eyes fintech hub status

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Sydney eyes fintech hub status

A new report has called on the Australian government to provide more support for the startup ecosystem in Sydney, contending the Australian capital has the potential to become an Asia/Pacific fintech hub, mirroring developments in London and New York.

Overstock hires developers to create crypto-securities exchange

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Overstock hires developers to create crypto-securities exchange

Online retailer Overstock has hired developers who worked on the P2P decentralised exchange Counterparty to build a marketplace for corporate stocks issued as 'cryptosecurities'.

PayPal picks London Start Tank participants

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PayPal picks London Start Tank participants

PayPal has selected the five UK tech startups that will move into its London offices for six months as part of a new mentoring programme.

MasterCard Asia/Pacific to mine social chatter for bank campaigns

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MasterCard Asia/Pacific to mine social chatter for bank campaigns

MasterCard is working with Facebook and other social media platforms in Asia Pacific to garner insights on consumer sentiment which can be sold on to banks.

Lloyds on the hunt for new digital talent as job cuts loom

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Lloyds on the hunt for new digital talent as job cuts loom

Lloyds Banking Group is set to cut thousands of jobs and close more branches as it embraces a new era in digital banking.

Madrid street transforms into Bitcoin Boulevard

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Madrid street transforms into Bitcoin Boulevard

Madrid has become the latest city to embrace the concept of a Bitcoin Boulevard, with the Spanish capital's Serrano Street getting a cryptocurrency makeover this weekend.

Capital One acquires user experience consultancy Adaptive Path

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Capital One acquires user experience consultancy Adaptive Path

Capital One has acquired San Francisco design outfit Adaptive Path, in a move that demonstrates the growing importance of user experience design thinking in financial products.

Crypto-currency outfit Epiphyte triumphs at Innotribe Startup Challenge

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Crypto-currency outfit Epiphyte triumphs at Innotribe Startup Challenge

US-based crypto-currency startup Epiphyte has emerged as the winner of the Innotribe Startup Challenge at Sibos in Boston.

Barclays fintech accelerator startups make pitches

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Barclays fintech accelerator startups make pitches

After three months of intensive work, the 11 fintech startups on Barclays' accelerator programme this week pitched their efforts to the great and the good.

Tangerine brings biometrics to mobile banking

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Tangerine brings biometrics to mobile banking

Canadian digital bank Tangerine is revamping its mobile app to enable customers to log in using Apple's Touch ID technology and issue commands through speech.

Wells Fargo steps into Oculus Rift at new digital lab

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Wells Fargo steps into Oculus Rift at new digital lab

Wells Fargo has established a digital lab to test the use of bleeding edge technologies such as smart wearables and virtual reality headsets in banking.

Reddit ponders own cryptocurrency to distribute shares to community

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Reddit ponders own cryptocurrency to distribute shares to community

After closing a $50 million funding round, Reddit could create its own cryptocurrency as a way of handing over shares in the platform to its massive user-base.

Yodlee Interactive adds location-based insight to financial data API

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Yodlee Interactive adds location-based insight to financial data API

Yodlee Interactive is launching a private beta programme that will marry its transactional data with geo-location information in an effort to make app offerings more personalised.

Dwolla looks to new markets after CME Group investment

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Dwolla looks to new markets after CME Group investment

Dwolla has raised $9.7 million in a funding round led by exchange operator CME Group in a move that signals the digital payments startup's intentions to move beyond the retail world.

$10 million startup fund aims at Stripe ecosystem

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$10 million startup fund aims at Stripe ecosystem

General Catalyst Partners is to invest $10 million in venture capital for market-changing businesses and applications built on the Stripe Connect platform.

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