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Aurora Exchange enlists Maiden Life and Mangopay for P2P lending platform

Aurora Exchange, a consumer loans exchange for responsible borrowers announced two major partnerships that pave way for bringing transparent and cost efficient consumer lending to the European market.

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Chatbot savings app Plum raises seed funding

Plum, the latest fintech startup looking to help the millennial generation manage their money and encourage savings, has raised £0.5 million in seed funding ahead of an invite-only launch at the end October.

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Start with the business problem not the technology

Kevin Johnson, Head of Innotribe Innovation Programmes, SWIFT, speaks about how the fintech ecosystem has evolved and trends in competition versus collaboration.

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CommBank uses virtual reality for kids financial education programme

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is trialling the use of virtual reality technology to teach young children about money management.

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Bank of Scotland advances online account opening with selfie verification

As part of the investment in digital technology to improve the customer experience, Lloyds Banking Group has just launched selfie technology to enable Bank of Scotland customers to open a current account seamlessly online.

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Are you ready for the bumpy road of Brexit?

Phil Hussey, Vice President - Industry Strategic Services, UK and Ireland, IBM outlines the impact of a potential Brexit on financial services and how firms should be preparing.

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ANZ and Wells Fargo test distributed ledger tech for correspondent banking

Wells Fargo and Australia's ANZ have built a shared distributed ledger platform prototype for correspondent banking payment reconciliation and settlement.

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Banking in the age of AI

Julia Krauwer, artificial intelligence expert at ABN Amro, discusses how advances in machine learning are increasingly being applied to an array of business-to-consumer interactions, including banking.

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Digital transformation is the new frontier

Wim Raymaekers, Global Head of the Banking Market, SWIFT, discusses the changes in the payments industry in the last year, and the next frontiers of innovation in payments.

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Regtech will help move from big data to smart data

Mathieu Maurier, Global Head of Sales and Relationship Management, Societe Generale Securities Services, explains regtech and where it fits into the industry in relation to fintech.

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Blockchain loyalty and rewards startup Loyyal joins Dubai accelerator

Loyyal, a leading blockchain start up focused on creating the future in global loyalty and rewards, today announced that it is participating in the inaugural Dubai Future Accelerators program.

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Thomson Reuters to build new Toronto tech centre

Thomson Reuters is to build a new technology centre in downtown Toronto, creating 400 IT jobs.

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Capital One acquires mobile price tracker Paribus

Capital One is continuing its fintech shopping spree, buying online price tracker Paribus for an undisclosed fee.

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Blockstream completes end-to-end test of lightning micropayment

This story of feline acquisition begins with the demonstration of v0.5 of the C lightning prototype, a lightning-fast micropayment system we've been working on here at Blockstream.

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Kiwibank rides the fintech accelerator

Kiwibank has partnered with Xero, Callaghan Innovation and Creative HQ to launch New Zealand's first fintech accelerator.

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Kreditech hires former mBank digital mastermind Panowicz

Kreditech, a Germany-based lender focused on the unbanked, has brought in Michal Panowicz, a digital banking veteran with spells at Nordea and Poland's mBank under his belt, as chief product and information officer.

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Luxembourg fund industry coalesces around blockchain

The Luxembourg fund industry is exploring how the uptake of distributed ledger technology can be applied to radically transform the asset management business, adopting a consortium-based approach involving nine leading banks, professional services firm PwC and local startup Scorechain.

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Virtual cash management will be the 2017 buzzword

Dick Oskam, Global Head Sales, Transaction Services, ING, speaks about the key topics that may dominate our conversations next year, and how cash management is changing today.

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Ericsson and Vodafone M-Pesa bid to simplify safe water payments in Africa

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced that its M-Commerce Interconnect (EMI) service will simplify mobile money payments and cash collection between mobile wallet provider Vodafone M-Pesa and businesses.

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Geneva gears up for fintech startup weekend

Swiss-based Fintech, eWise will provide its patented Financial Data Aggregation API at Start Up Weekend FinTech Geneva enabling participants to create next-generation financial services apps.