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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
US retail giant Wal-Mart has teamed up with American Express to launch Bluebird, a mobile-heavy alternative to bank debit and current accounts.
08 October 2012
Nutmeg, an online investment manager promising to offer private banking-type services for everyone, has launched in the UK.
Central banks should make sure that postal operators can issue electronic money so that they can offer mobile financial services and help bank the unbanked, according to a report from a United Nations agency.
05 October 2012
UK retail giant Marks & Spencer has stepped up its banking operations, launching a current account and promising to open up a raft of new in-store branches by the end of the year.
27 September 2012
Virgin Money has opened its first 'store' - a refurbished Northern Rock branch - in Guildford, Surrey as it prepares to take on Britain's high street old-guard.
09 July 2012
UK supermarket giant Asda has re-branded its personal finance arm as it prepares to become the latest retailer to take on traditional high street banks.
Tesco Bank sales dipped by 3.7% for the first quarter 2012 as the high street retailer diverted resources to completing its migration to a new technology platform.
11 June 2012
UK retailer Marks & Spencer is to move into high street banking with the launch of M&S Bank next month.
08 June 2012
The UK government is inviting peer-to-peer lenders to apply for a slice of a £100 million pot that has been earmarked for firms that can offer alternative lending sources for small businesses.
31 May 2012
US account aggregation outfit Yodlee has set up an accelerator and incubator programme for start-ups to develop, test and run new digital banking applications over its FinApp open API platform.
02 May 2012
Telekom Austria is to extend its established paybox NFC scheme for parking and transit payments to the merchant point-of-sale.
18 April 2012
Funding Circle, the UK peer-to-peer lending site for small businesses, has raised £10 million in a second funding round led by Index Ventures.
04 April 2012
Apple may have the hottest stock, the coolest tech and the biggest cash pile in history, but consumers would still be wary of switching their bank accounts to a new model iBank.
20 March 2012
US pre-paid card outfit Green Dot has been given the all clear by regulators to buy Bonneville, a small Utah-based bank.
24 November 2011
US banking startup BankSimple is inviting its first customers onboard and rebranding the company to plain Simple.
08 November 2011
UK retailer Tesco is to delay its push into the full-service banking market for fear of repeating the technical mishaps that locked out customers during the summer switch to a new banking platform.
05 October 2011
UK supermarket bank Tesco is to offer customers the option of using its own brand price comparison service to rate home and insurance quotes served up by the retailer's online banking portal against competitor offerings.
28 September 2011
Financial heavyweight Citi has faced off a challenge to old-bank hegemony with a powerful display of its technological prowess that knocked the wind out of a room-full of Bank 2.0 innovation gurus and digital evangelists at an Innotribe session at Sibos in Toronto.
22 September 2011
Bankers and corporates do not expect to meet a 2014 deadline for Sepa compliance, according to a straw poll of delegates conducted during a panel discussion of the controversial payment initiative at the annual congress of banking co-operative Swift.
19 September 2011
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