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API-based transaction network Token has taken its first step out of Silicon Valley, opening an office in London's Canary Wharf to capitalise on opportunities from the forthcoming implementation of the PSD2 directive in Europe.
02 August 2016
The bank-backed R3 blockchain consortium has expanded its partnership network to the market data business, recruiting Thomson Reuters as a new member.
Propel Ventures, the $250 million venture fund established by BBVA, has participated in a $4.5 million seed round for Brave Software, a startup reinventing the browser for speed, privacy and micropayments.
The founder of an Australian robo-advisor has accused the country's banks of hypocrisy over their cries of anti-competitive behaviour from Apple Pay
29 July 2016
German digital challenger bank Fidor is being bought by France's Groupe BPCE. Fidor will continue to operate as an independent business following the acquisition, terms of which have not been disclosed.
28 July 2016
Standards have the potential to strengthen and speed up fintech development in the UK, according to a paper recently published by BSI.
Singapore's DBS Bank has signed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as it prepares to shift up to half its compute workload to the cloud over the next two years.
Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) is set to embark on a second management reorganisation within 14 months in anticipation of a further push of its digital banking plans, according to Bloomberg.
The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has called for an overhaul of the UK's payments infrastructure to generate more competition and meet consumers' needs.
Four Australian banks are joining forces to negotiate with Apple and be allowed to offer their own payment services on the tech giant's hardware.
27 July 2016
India is set for a digital payments revolution, with the value of transactions set to hit US$500 billion by 2020, ten times its current level, according to research from Google and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
The European Commission has issued a call for tender, offering up to EUR350,000 for a study on the continent's fintech sector.
26 July 2016
Telefonica Germany has launched a mobile banking service using white-label technology supplied by Fidor Bank.
25 July 2016
Distributed ledger technology could help with damage limitation in the event of service disruptions, as the paper ‘How to get a head on operational resilience’ discusses.
Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX) claims it is the first execution venue in Europe to list a European regulated product based exclusively on the crypto currency.
Venture capitalists have invested more than $200m in UK tech startups in the month following the controversial Brexit vote, allaying fears that London's growing tech sector would be one of the first casualties of the withdrawal from the European Union.
The UK and South Korea have formed a "fintech bridge" that will help financial technology firms and investors from each country gain access to the other.
22 July 2016
Thailand's central bank has called for more regulation of the country's growing fintech sector in order to prevent systemic risk and protect consumers.
UK bank Standard Chartered is planning to roll out its video banking service to more than five million users across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
21 July 2016
UK-based Nucleus Commercial Finance claims it has made the largest ever P2P loan to date following a £14.5 million financing facility offered to UK steel stockholder Industrial Metal Services (IMS).
20 July 2016
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