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Online army bank USAA has begun using IBM's Watson cognitive computing platform to help military personnel ease back into civilian life.
25 July 2014
AvantCredit, a Chicago-based online consumer lender, has raised $75 million in a series c funding round led by Tiger Global Management and secured a $200 million credit facility.
24 July 2014
A business incubation programme run by a consortium of UK universities has been pitching promising startup companies to Barclays Bank.
23 July 2014
A collection of 10 fintech startups from around the world have battled their way onto an accelerator programme run by Startupbootcamp.
21 July 2014
Venture capital interest in payment industry startups appears to be on the wane as investors wise up to the difficulties of achieving scale in a complex, competitive market.
18 July 2014
Facebook has begun testing a 'buy' button which lets users purchase products advertised on the social network. Meanwhile, Twitter is also stepping up its commerce game, acquiring payments outfit CardSpring.
A startup competition organised by Spanish bank BBVA has attracted entrepreneurs from 56 countries, showcasing 850 technology projects.
New York state's financial services regulator has set out the details of its planned 'Bitlicense' framework for firms dealing with virtual currencies.
17 July 2014
Photo sharing app Snapchat could be preparing a move into the payments arena, two recently filed trademarks suggest.
In its latest attempt to crack online and mobile payments, Visa has unveiled a system which lets virtual shoppers complete purchases with a couple of clicks.
Elliptic, a UK startup behind an insured bitcoin storage service, has raised $2 million in a seed funding round led by Octopus Investments.
16 July 2014
A payments processing firm has built an app that lets people pay at Dwolla merchants with a swipe of their Google Glass.
The French government has moved to limit the anonymity of bitcoin users through rules that require 'distributors' of the virtual currency to verify the identity of account holders.
14 July 2014
Former Paypal co-founder Max Levchin is looking to disrupt the payments market once again with the launch of a new service that lets online merchants advance credit to consumers at the point of sale.
10 July 2014
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.
Executives at Visa Europe are pondering an overhaul of card security standards as new technologies and consumer preferences for frictionless shopping create demands for a more flexible approach to protecting transactions.
09 July 2014
Mobile and internet banking is now being used for transactions worth nearly £1 billion a day in the UK, hastening the decline of the traditional bank branch, according to new data from the British Bankers Association.
08 July 2014
CaixaBank is to distribute 15,000 contactless wristbands to customers over the summer, staking a claim to being the largest wearable payments programme in Europe.
03 July 2014
Google design whiz Dan Makoski is quitting the search giant's free-thinking Project Ara 'pirate' mobile development division to join Capital One as VP of design, with an initial focus on m-commerce and payments.
Spanish banking giant Santander has launched a $100 million, London-based fintech venture capital fund as it bids to get in on the ground floor at startups leading the financial services digital revolution.
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