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Intel has partnered with UK tech accelerator space Level39 to provide startups with access to its industry expertise, contacts, data sets and next-generation hardware.
02 July 2014
Metro Bank and Atom Bank founder Anthony Thomson has teamed up with fintech vendor Fiserv to develop a technology platform designed to help the raft of new challengers bidding to enter the UK banking market.
US mobile-centric financial services provider Moven has raised $8 million in a series a funding round led by SBT Ventures.
01 July 2014
Deutsche Bourse has launched an 'Open Innovation' forum with the aim of building a community to incubate, develop and accelerate new business ideas coming from outside the group
State Bank of India (SBI) has opened six digital branches as part of a campaign to attract young customers who have grown up in the internet and mobile era.
PayPal has released an app for the new Android Wear line of smartwatches.
27 June 2014
CME Group has participated in a $30 million funding round for self-destructing messaging app developer Wickr, as the startup bids to move into financial services.
Finextra speaks to Matthieu Soule about life at L'Atelier, the technology and innovation tracking unit at BNP Paribas.
The gravitational pull of New York's financial sector is helping the metropolis outstrip Silicon Valley in terms of fintech startup investment, according to a new report by Accenture and the Partnership Fund for New York City.
26 June 2014
Brits will soon be able to download all of their current account data and feed it into online tools that help them pick the best banking provider.
24 June 2014
Dutch banking giant ING has appointed veteran executive Brunon Bartkiewicz chief innovation officer.
23 June 2014
European retail banks need to radically overhaul their technology infrastructure if they are to face off the competitive threats to their business from a host of new startups, says consultancy Deloitte.
The Brixton Pound is getting its own app, tapping iBeacon technology to let shoppers make purchases in the local currency through their iPhones.
20 June 2014
As head of Digital Ventures at Russia's Sberbank and a partner at fintech VC firm SBT Venture Capital, Mircea Mihaescu is helping to shape the future of financial services. He talks to Finextra about how giant incumbents and upstart challengers are approaching the digital revolution.
Finextra is working with VocaLink-backed mobile payment startup Zapp to seek out new ways to re-invent the retail experience at a two-day hackathon in London.
19 June 2014
QR code-based mobile payments firm LevelUp is integrating support for Apple's iBeacon after testing showed that pushing instore offers through the technology significantly increased sales.
18 June 2014
The concept of legal tender should be abolished and private money should enjoy a level playing field that enables the likes of bitcoin to compete with state-backed currencies, a new think tank report suggests.
The UK will get a new payments regulator next year, while the industry is busy working on its own 'roadmap'. Finextra spoke to key players from both sides about how they will work with each other.
16 June 2014
France's national interbank network, Groupement des Cartes Bancaires CB, is evaluating the use of biometry in payment transactions and is expected to approve a new authentication standard based on fingeprints before the end of the year
The US Marshals' office is auctioning off nearly 30,000 bitcoin seized last year from the Silk Road dark web marketplace.
13 June 2014
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