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Minister Eoghan Murphy unveils new fintech startups

Minister congratulates recipients of Enterprise Ireland’s Competitive Start Fund on completion of three month development programme

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Advances in online commerce create challenges

Daniel Maurice-Vallerey and Mike Ausems, co-founders and co-CEOs of Yello, discuss how technology can play a fundamental role in enabling changes in the retail sales environment.

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Precise Biometrics to acquire the business of NexID Biometrics

Precise Biometrics, a leader in fingerprint software, has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of NexID Biometrics, a specialist in spoof mitigation and liveness detection solutions for the biometric authentication industry, for 32 million SEK in cash.

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Tempo Money Transfer integrates with Stellar Blockchain

Tempo Money Transfer, has successfully completed integration with the financial platform, Stellar.

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FCA to re-write the rule book on crowdfunding

The Financial Conduct Authority is preparing to crackdown on lax practices in the UK's booming crowdfunding industry after raising concerns about misleading and complex marketing and inadequate provisions for winding down when a platform goes belly-up.

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Everledger secures the first bottle of wine on the blockchain

Emerging technology firm Everledger is the first organisation to secure a bottle of wine’s provenance on the blockchain.

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Scotiabank and QED ally for fintech startup search in Latin America

Scotiabank and QED Investors are collaborating on an initiative to inject capital and industry expertise into select Latin American fintech companies.

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BNP Paribas to develop prototypes with nine hackathon finalists

BNP Paribas has signed letters of intent with nine of the eighteen startups who made it to the final stages of the French bank's annual innovation hackathon.

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Ring out the old, ring in the new

Sophie Guibaud, VP of European expansion at Fidor Bank looks back at the key banking tech trends of 2016 and what we can expect to rise to the top in the year ahead.

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Watson data scientist talks up 'augmented intelligence' for financial services

True artificial intelligence may still be some years off but the financial services industry is already beginning to reap the benefits of augmented intelligence, says a data scientist working on IBM's Watson.

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Omnichannel focus on uniting sender and receiver

Alex Holmes, MoneyGram, outlines three key developments in the money transfers industry, and how customers benefit from these changes.

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FIS sets up fintech partner network; preps 2017 accelerator programme

FIS (FIS), a global leader in financial services technology, today announced the launch of a network of early-stage fintech companies with direct applicability to the financial services ecosystem served by FIS.

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Citi fintech unit taps agile methodologies to craft new mobile app

Citibank is rolling out a new mobile app that combines banking, wealth management and money movement features on a single biometrically-secured application.

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Oberthur partners with Inamo for wearable payments in Australia

OT (Oberthur Technologies), a leading global provider of embedded security software products, services and solutions, has today signed an agreement to provide its digital payment enablement technology to Inamo’s wearable solutions, starting with the CURL which is being launched in Australia today.

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Tullett and Quaternion partner CU FinTech Lab on open source risk project

Tullett Prebon Information and Irish risk analytics firm Quaternion have partnered to launch an open source risk project in collaboration with Columbia University’s FinTech Lab in New York.

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Fintech envoys for Scotland appointed

The UK Government is appointing two fintech envoys to help Scotland realise the benefits of the boom in financial technology innovation.

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Visa to run fintech bootcamp for African startups

Visa is collaborating with Hong Kong-based VC firm and incubator Nest to run a four-day fintech bootcamp in Nairobi for innovative startups in Africa.

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IBM debuts blockchain ecosystem

Blockchain has the potential to transform the way industries conduct business transactions.

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FCA and HKMA agree fintech collaboration pact

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) have entered into a Co-operation Agreement (Agreement) to foster collaboration between the two regulatory authorities in promoting financial innovation.

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EBA bends under weight of PSD2 mandates

The European Banking Authority is struggling to keep pace with the timetable for the delivery of Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for the revised Payments Services Directive (PSD2), after being overwhelmed by the large volume of responses to market consultations.