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Paypal is to be the first payments provider for Samsung's new range of Gear 2 smartwatches.
24 February 2014
MasterCard has added in-app payments to its MasterPass digital wallet as it bids to grab a slice of a fast-growing multi-billion dollar industry.
Peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle has been handed another £40 million by the British government to distribute to businesses.
21 February 2014
PayPal has hired programmer, computer scientist, and open source champion Danese Cooper as its first head of open source.
US digital banking start-up Simple has sold out to Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) for $117 million in cash.
20 February 2014
The Royal Canadian Mint has selected SecureKey device-based multi-factor user authentication technology for its new MintChip cloud-based digital currency.
Barclays Pingit is being used by Savills Auctions to sell houses, with one homebuyer already putting down a £23,000 deposit via the mobile app.
19 February 2014
Capital One has taken a stake in ClearXchange, the US bank-backed clearing house for person-to-person online payments transfer via mobile or e-mail.
Visa and MasterCard have announced support for Host Card Emulation, a cloud-based mechanism for hosting NFC applications outside the Secure Element that effectively removes the need for bank reliance on telcos in implementing mobile payments.
Spain's CaixaBank is taking a punt on wearable technology, developing Google Glass and smartwatch apps.
First National Bank of South Africa is applying motion-sensor technology at its flagship cashless and paperless bank branch in Cape Town to attract the attention of passers-by and encourage interaction with the screen.
Bank of Monetral is closing all bitcoin-related business accounts across Canada in the wake of hostile comments from government ministers on the threats posed by emerging crypto-currencies.
Barclays Bank has headed to New York in search of innovative fintech start-ups to join its three-month accelerator programme in London.
18 February 2014
Telco-owned UK mobile commerce joint venture Weve has selected Proxama technology as the basis for its 'Pouch' loyalty service.
Mobile point-of-sale outfit SetPay is one of five firms to win a spot in Banco Sabadell's startup programme for technology companies.
17 February 2014
Cybercrooks unhappy with the level of anonymity offered by bitcoin are developing their own private currencies for use within online forums, say researchers at RSA.
Google has acquired SlickLogin, an Israeli startup which is bidding to replace passwords with sounds. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
Startup trading app outfit Nous has added bitcoin to the list of currencies players can bet on through its FX-forecasting game, Spark Profit.
14 February 2014
The price of bitcoin plunged again overnight after the operator of dark market Web site Silk Road 2 claimed to have lost $2.7 million in a scam exploiting a known vulnerability in he crypto-currency.
US Bank is piloting voice biometrics technology which allows customers to access their accounts by speaking into their mobile phones.
12 February 2014
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