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Expedia has struck a deal with Coinbase which will see the online travel agency accept bitcoin for hotel bookings.
12 June 2014
Accenture has teamed up with some of the world's biggest banks to bring its Fintech Innovation Lab to Asia Pacific.
Beating off competition from more than 300 rivals from around the world, 11 fintech startups have scored spots on an accelerator programme run by banking giant Barclays.
11 June 2014
A Zimbabwean technology firm has developed an in-store payments system that lets shoppers pay at the point-of-sale through a sound emitted by their mobile phones.
Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Helsinki this week for EBAday, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.
American Express has struck a deal that will let customers of the Uber car service use card reward points to pay for their rides.
10 June 2014
High profile investors Richard Branson and Peter Thiel have joined a $25 million series b funding round for London-based international money transfer platform TransferWise.
Barclaycard is preparing to jump on the wearable tech bandwagon through the launch of a contactless payments wristband.
09 June 2014
Comic Relief, the UK charity that raises cash for good causes, is exploring the potential for bitcoin donations at its next biennial telethon.
06 June 2014
Within the next two years, 25% of the top 50 global banks will have launched a banking app store to improve app discovery, user experience and collaboration, says Gartner.
05 June 2014
Deutsche Bank is running a 'Future Banking International Design Competition' seeking smart ideas, applications, gadgets, products or services that can inspire customers, whether in the branch or transacting on the Web.
IBM has patented an innovative fraud prevention technique that analyses the way users interact with websites to spot anomalous behaviour.
04 June 2014
Rabobank is to hold a fintech hackathon in Utrecht with the winning team scooping a EUR5000 cash prize.
Standard Chartered Bank has partnered with Singapore's SingTel to launch a mobile money service that lets customers access and save their money, make payments, apply for loans, and even purchase insurance from their handsets.
03 June 2014
Harris + Hoole (H+H), a UK coffee shop chain part-owned by Tesco, has launched a mobile payments app that lets customers get their caffeine fixes without taking their phones out of their pockets at the till.
02 June 2014
Bitcoin may currently be going through an "adoption chasm" but the crypto-currency will have a profound societal effect, shaking up payments markets and other industries over the next few years, analysts from Wedbush Securities have predicted.
30 May 2014
Russia's Alfa Bank is tapping into the craze for fitness-based wearable technology and bribing its customers into getting in shape.
JPMorgan Chase has committed $30 million to establish a 'Financial Solutions Lab' that will seek to harness expertise and technology to help consumers improve their financial well-being.
29 May 2014
Fidelity Investments, Thomson Reuters and Amazon are backing a fintech startup programme in Boston that will provide early stage firms with free and discounted access to financial data sets to test-drive their applications.
28 May 2014
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