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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.
14 February 2014
US Bank is piloting voice biometrics technology which allows customers to access their accounts by speaking into their mobile phones.
12 February 2014
MasterCard and Silicon Valley Bank have joined forces to launch an incubator programme designed to help early-stage commerce firms navigate their way to series a funding.
Standard Bank has begun piloting a current-account linked bitcoin wallet developed by South African outfit Switchless.
11 February 2014
Kantox, a London-based peer-to-peer foreign exchange trading platform for SMEs and mid-caps, has raised EUR6.5 million in a series a funding round.
10 February 2014
Bitcoin's price has plummeted by around 20% after exchange MT Gox temporarily suspended withdrawals, Apple kicked a popular wallet off of its App Store and Russia outlawed the crypto-currency.
07 February 2014
UK telco joint venture Weve has teamed up with MasterCard, promising to clean up the "mess" of mobile commerce and bring NFC-based m-payments to the masses.
06 February 2014
Europe's Startupbootcamp has opened a three-month fintech accelerator programme with support from multiple corporations, including Lloyds, Rabobank and MasterCard.
Passion Capital has led a £2.4 million investment round in Birdback, a UK-based start-up that ties retailer loyalty programmes and discounted offers to consumer payment cards.
As crowdfunding emerges as a serious alternative financing tool, a new Iosco report warns that regulatory regimes around the world will have to harmonise their approaches to an increasingly global industry.
Geeks tired of earth-bound crypto-currencies can now trade in their bitcion for Klingon Empire Darsek at a new science fiction focussed exchange.
05 February 2014
Westpac has begun trialling a Google Glass app which lets users keep an eye on their balance and outlined plans to install Apple's iBeacon technology in branches.
04 February 2014
Figures released by the UK Peer to Peer Finance Association shows the industry in buoyant mood ahead of the introduction of new regulations in April, with P2P lending increasing by 121% during 2013.
03 February 2014
London-based loyalty start-up Red Zebra Analytics has raised a seven-figure investment from fintech-focussed SBT Venture Capital.
Thomson Reuters has added Twitter and news sentiment analysis to its flagship Eikon desktop product to help traders make sense of vast amounts of market moving data.
Plans floated by New York regulators to issue 'BitLicenses' specifically tailored to virtual currencies, drew mixed responses from industry players at a hearing this week.
31 January 2014
Using security protocols they have been developing for the last 12 years, a group of Oxford University academics are preparing to launch a mobile person-to-person payments app.
Money management app Mint has struck a deal with Coinbase that will let users view their bitcoin transactions alongside more traditional financial accounts.
30 January 2014
Peer-to-peer lending platform Zopa has raised £15 million in a funding round led by hedge fund Arrowgrass Capital Partners.
Amazon is preparing to break out of the confines of its e-commerce site by building a person-to-person payments service and a point-of-sale system based on Kindle tablets for bricks-and mortar retailers.
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