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B2BPay wins BBVA Open talent contest

BBVA has today named B2BPay as the winner of its Open Talent Global Fintech for Companies competition.

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British think-tank preps ICO

The recent and increasingly severe government crackdowns on Initial Coin Offerings are causing shockwaves throughout cryptocurrency markets.

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Square applies for bank status

Square, the fintech startup headed by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, has made an official application in the US for a banking license, ending months of speculation about its plans but also reigniting the argument about the use of industrial loans charters (ILCs).

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US Bank shows off Alexa skill

US Bank customers are among the first in the nation to be able to complete banking tasks, such as checking an account balance or making a payment to a U.S. Bank credit card, simply by speaking a command to an Amazon Alexa device.

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DBS rolls out VR mortgage app

DBS Bank has launched a mortgage app that lets Hong Kong homebuyers take virtual, 360 degree tours of properties.

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UniCredit names CEE hackathon winners

UniCredit - together with ABC accelerator - launched the first UniCredit Hackathon CEE, a global competition that took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 2nd and 3rd September 2017.

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New EC rules could enable banks to increase their software spending

European banks under siege from digital challengers and sophisticated cyber attackers could face some relief from a possible change in accounting rules that will enable them to spend more on new software.

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Deutsche Bank boss says 'big number' will be replaced by robots

John Cryan, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, has told an audience of bankers in Frankfurt that he expects a "big number" of his current staff to be replaced by robots

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China's fintechs look at overseas IPOs to raise funds

The tightened regulatory environment in China is leading number of its largest fintech startups to consider launching initial public offerings (IPOs) overseas in order to raise funds.

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Mashreq Bank signs for NCR video and tablet banking tech

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), a global leader in omni-channel solutions today announced that Mashreq Bank, one of the largest banks in the UAE, will revamp its banking services in the country with a host of innovative technologies from NCR over the next six months.

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Law firm Slaughter and May looks for Fintech Fast Forward applicants

Slaughter and May, the international law firm, today announces that applications for the second cohort of Fintech Fast Forward, its fintech entrepreneurs programme, are now being accepted.

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A recipe for quality customer experience

Mike Plimsoll, Industry Marketing Director, Adobe, talks about how efficient use of data, creativity flow, effective processing and people interaction are the key ingredients for quality customer experience.

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Cryptocurrency transactions to exceed $1trn by year-end: report

A new report has forecast that the value of cryptocurrency transactions will surpass the $1 trillion milestone before the end of 2017.

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Geospatial Insight raises funding for its global expansion

Geospatial Insight, the UK's leading independent visual intelligence provider, announced today a Series A growth equity investment led by venture capital firm, VenturesOne.

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Alipay 'Smile to Pay' tech comes to Chinese KFC

KFC has rolled out Alipay's facial recognition technology at a restaurant in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, enabling hungry patrons to pay for their chicken with a smile and their mobile phone number.

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Aussie banks unveil new fintech features

Two Australian banks unveiled updates to their banking services with ANZ Bank launching a voice-based identity service for mobile banking and National Australia Bank (NAB) debuting a chatbot for its business banking service.

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China's central bank issues instant ban on initial coin offerings

The People's Bank of China (PBoC) has announced an immediate ban on initial coin offerings (ICOs)declaring them illegal and a threat to financial stability.

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JPMorgan criticised over mobile app patent award

JPMorgan Chase, the biggest bank in the US, has been awarded a patent for the technology that allows mobile applications that talk to each other, attracting criticism from the tech and intellectual property community that believe the process is so commonplace in today's smartphones that no single company, least of all a bank, can lay claim to the patent.

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India's central bank plans blockchain platform

The R&D unit of the Reserve Bank of India is preparing to launch a banking platform based on blockchain technology.

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Ping Identity to underpin UK's Open Banking framework

Ping Identity, the identity security company for over half of the Fortune 100, has been selected by Open Banking to provide the identity and access management (IAM) technology that will underpin the UK’s open banking framework - the UK’s national response to the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2).