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Funding Circle, an online marketplace for business loans, has hired Barclays Business commercial director Luke Jooste to head up its move into the property finance arena.
18 November 2013
30 years after the launch of Homelink, the UK's first online banking system, software house Intelligent Environments is setting its sights on the future of digital financial services by developing a smartwatch app.
San Francisco-based start-up Coin is bidding to slim wallets with a new payment card-sized device which can store all the details of users' credit, debit, gift and membership cards within its memory and be used in their place.
15 November 2013
Brits can donate to the BBC Children in Need charity appeal this year via the Barclays Pingit mobile app.
The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) is exploring the feasibility of creating a new brand of money transmission license for virtual currencies, dubbed BitLicenses.
The day after JPMorgan got a pasting on Twitter over it's ill-conceived Tweet chat with vice chairman Jimmy Lee, the CEO of the UK's Nationwide has entered the fray, live-tweeting the bank's half-year results and taking questions from journalists.
Spain's Banco Sabadell has launched a start-up programme, promising cash and support for 10 young, innovative digital and technology firms.
14 November 2013
In a marketing gimmick ahead of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, commuters on Moscow's subway can now pay for their journeys using a new currency - squats.
Israeli vendor On Track Innovations (OTI) says a consortium of banks in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao has signed for its Wave device, which plugs into the audio-jacks of smartphones, enabling them to make NFC payments.
13 November 2013
Spanish bank BBVA is releasing its raw transaction datasets to developers as part of an international competition to create new services, applications and insight into consumer demands.
Up to a third of banks' market share in America could be up for grabs by 2020, with new digital-only players and retailer-run enterprises taking on the old guard, according to research from Accenture.
12 November 2013
With $5.5 million in funding behind it and a technology platform from Nasdaq OMX, Singapore-based bitcoin exchange itBit has launched, promising to professionalise the virtual currency trading arena.
Finextra and Level39, in association with Innotribe, are to host a two-day conference exploring the new wave of innovation sweeping across the financial services sector.
Americans could soon be allowed to make political campaign contributions in bitcoins, the Federal Election Commission has hinted.
08 November 2013
Barclays is set to open branches within Asda stores, shutting down existing sites and shifting staff to the supermarket.
Capital One claims that its new mobile banking app log-in process is so easy to use that you can do it while being chased by a herd of one-ton bulls.
Users of bitcoin Web wallet Inputs.io have been left out of pocket after its developer claimed to have been hacked by crooks who made off with more than 4100 BTC.
German digital bank Fidor is to expand into Russia through a joint venture with local venture fund Life.Sreda.
07 November 2013
Investment activity in fintech companies for financially underserved consumers in the United States totaled more than $5.2 billion between July 2012 and June 2013, according to a report by the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) and Core Innovation Capital.
US financial services giant Fidelity Investments has unveiled an online educational investing game called 'Beat the Benchmark'.
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