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US peer-to-peer loan marketplace Prosper has raised $20 million in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital and appointed Stephan Vermut, founder of Merlin Securities, as CEO.
23 January 2013
The US state of Iowa is set to let residents pay some of their taxes using Dwolla, a local digital transactions start up.
Ribbit Capital, a new Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund focused purely on investing in innovative, tech-led financial services firms, has launched after closing its own $100 million fund.
Turkey's IsBank has integrated its mobile banking platform with its ATMs, enabling customers to set up a withdrawal through their handset and then complete it by scanning a QR code on cash machine screens.
22 January 2013
Green Dot Bank has launched a full-service bank account specifically designed to operate on a mobile phone.
16 January 2013
Barclays Bank plans to slash software development costs by 90% by building a private cloud infrastructure and moving more applications to machines running the Linux open source operating system.
10 January 2013
US start-up Movenbank, which has positioned itself as a mobile-only, cardless, branchless bank, may be forced to offer companion, plastic cards to customers in order to be compliant with MasterCard rules.
14 December 2012
In an effort to shock users into saving more for their retirement, Bank of America's Merrill Edge investment advisory unit has introduced a social tool that ages a picture of consumers, enabling them to see how they will look years down the line
05 December 2012
Intuit has begun piloting a tweaked, chip and PIN version of its GoPayment mobile credit card processing app and hardware in the UK.
29 November 2012
Spanish bank BBVA is to use social networking site Foursquare to enable online interaction across its physical branch network and encourage more customers to participate in its gamification efforts through the BBVA Game portfolio.
28 November 2012
South Africa's Absa and MasterCard have unveiled a dual contactless debit and credit card which also includes a display screen for passcodes that secure online payments.
New York is to host its first ever FinTech Startup Weekend in early December, pairing developers with vendor APIs, entrepreneurs and business and marketing executives in a 48-hour race to create innovative financial applications.
19 November 2012
In its latest incursions into the high-street, PayPal has begun testing two different mobile-based payments systems, one in Australia and another in Amsterdam.
15 November 2012
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has convinced innovative finance start-ups BillGuard, Plastyc and Simple to share their anonymised customer data to help identify behaviours and trends.
Despite a tough economic climate, the vast majority of retail banks around the world are still increasing their spending on innovation, with online and mobile services seen as priorities, according to a survey from Infosys and Efma.
13 November 2012
Bloomberg has launched an App Portal that gives its 315,000 desktop terminal subscribers access to applications created by third party developers.
NAB unit UBank has launched a site that pulls together anonymous transaction data to identify trends and allow visitors to compare their spending with that of their fellow Aussies.
09 November 2012
An application that uses mobile geopositioning to locate la Caixa customer retailers and to share information about them via social networks has won the EUR10,000 prize for the best widget created during the Spanish bank's second annual FinAppsParty.
07 November 2012
Swedish start-up iZettle, which provides technology that turns mobile phones into payment terminals, has teamed up with wireless operator EE to launch in the UK.
German banacasurer Allianz is inviting early stage start-up companies to pitch applications for pilot projects in big data, social media, mobile and sponsorship.
06 November 2012
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