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Coinsetter raises $500k for bitcoin FX trading platform

New York-based start-up Coinsetter has raised $500,000 in seed funding as it prepares to launch its forex trading platform for bitcoin.

10 April 2013

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Mobile is in demand; can banks deliver?

Paul Stoddart, managing director of strategy and business development at VocaLink describes the shifting demands of consumers in the digital age.

08 April 2013

News/Innovation

Mozilla working on embedded Web payments API for desktop and phones

Mozilla is to introduce an experimental Web API designed to make online payments on the desktop and mobile as easy as the checkout button for merchants.

05 April 2013

News/Innovation

ANZ claims one million goMoney app users

ANZ says that more than a million Aussies are now using its goMoney mobile-to-mobile payments app, transferring around A$2.5 billion a month.

05 April 2013

News/Innovation

Bloomberg adds real-time tweet stream to market data desktop

Bloomberg is to integrate real-time Twitter feeds into its market data terminal. The announcement follows this week's decision by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to allow companies to use social media for corporate disclosures.

04 April 2013

News/Innovation

BofA rolls out video teller ATMs

As it accelerates its branch closure programme, Bank of America is preparing to introduce ATMs that let customers talk to tellers through real-time video technology.

04 April 2013

News/Innovation

Bitcoin resumes upward curve following market disruptions

Bitcoin values have resumed their upward momentum after a DDoS attack on Japanese exchange Mt. Gox and depository hack at Instawallet briefly stalled the digital currency's climb on Wednesday.

04 April 2013

News/Innovation

Bank of the West app lets users check balances without login

Bank of the West has revamped its mobile app to let customers check their balances with just the slide of a finger, without logging into their accounts.

03 April 2013

News/Innovation

SEC greenlights use of social media for company news

Publicly-listed US companies can share market-moving information on Facebook and Twitter, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ruled.

03 April 2013

News/Innovation

EBAday to set the agenda for the European payments industry

Europe's leading futurist, Dr Patrick Dixon, is to give the keynote presentation at EBAday 2013, the pre-eminent annual event for the European payments industry, which will run for two full days from 21-22 May at the Estrel Convention Center, Berlin.

28 March 2013

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The future for Microsoft's Digital Wallet Foundry

Richard Peers of Microsoft examines the initial goals and the lessons learned in hosting a digital wallet hack-a-thon in London.

28 March 2013

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Silicon Valley comes to the the Big Smoke

Rodney Bowen-Wright, director of business development, strategic and emerging business teams, at Microsoft talks about bringing Silicon Valley development techniques to London's financial community.

27 March 2013

News/Innovation

UK govt preps full, utility-style, payments regulator

The UK government is preparing to bring in a utility-style regulator for retail payment systems, putting an end to the current practice of industry self-policing.

26 March 2013

News/Innovation

RBS launches in-app 'Mobile Chat' for customer service on the go

NatWest and RBS have added a mobile text-based chat facility to their business banking apps, giving customers access to customer service agents while on the move.

26 March 2013

Finextra TV/Innovation

The promise of digital payments

Payments entrepreneur Julian Wilson discusses the Digital Wallet Foundry and why, finally, the promise of payments innovation may be full-filled.

26 March 2013

Finextra TV/Innovation

The race to develop a mobile POS app

David Hearn, software architect from financial services consultancy Consult Hyperion, describes how he built a smartphone enabled mobile POS for chip and PIN and mag stripe cards for the Microsoft Windows 8-based, Windows Phone at the Microsoft Digital Wallet Foundry hack-a-thon.

25 March 2013

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Barclays takes the crown at Digital Wallet Foundry

A seven man team from Barclays Bank, using tools from FreedomPay and their own Pingit mobile payments app, emerged with top honours at Microsoft's week long Digital Wallet Foundry hack-a-thon in London. Paul Wilshaw, creative lead at Barclays describes the hack-a-thon experience here.

25 March 2013

News/Innovation

Barclays takes the crown at Digital Wallet Foundry

A seven man team from Barclays Bank, using tools from FreedomPay and their own Pingit mobile payments app, emerged with top honours at Microsoft's week long Digital Wallet Foundry hack-a-thon in London.

22 March 2013