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Halloween howler: HSBC suffers online banking gremlins

High street bank HSBC was forced to apologise to UK customers after its online banking service went down for a chunk of Friday.

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Nordea joins EUR14 million funding round in PFM startup Tink

Nordea is among a clutch of banks to have taken an equity stake in and signed a licensing deal with Swedish PFM startup Tink.

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Moneyfarm acquires tech behind PFM chatbot Ernest

UK digital wealth platform Moneyfarm is aiming to move into the personal financial management space with the acquisition of financial chatbot technology startup Ernest.

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HSBC moves into open banking

HSBC is testing a platform that lets customers see all of their accounts, no matter who the provider, on one screen.

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BBVA rolls out financial health diagnosis tool

Spain's BBVA has added a diagnostics tool to its app that gives customers a picture of their financial health and then offers a made-to-measure plan for improving it.

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ING-backed money management app Yolt gets smarter

Yolt, the UK money management app backed by Dutch banking giant ING, has added a host of new features, including a money transfer comparison service.

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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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Personal Finance bot Cleo raises £2m

British AI-based personal finance chatbot Cleo has raised £2 million in a funding round led by Robin Klein at VC firm LocalGlobe and joined by Skype founder Niklas Zennström

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Investing app Stash raises $40m

Stash, a New York startup bidding to bring app-based investing to the masses, has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round led by Coatue Management.

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Australians urged to 're-wire' brains for saving

Australia's Ubank is aiming to turn its free-spending customers into diligent savers through AI-powered money management technology and tips on "re-wiring" their financial brains.

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Spanish PFM app Fintonic raises EUR25m

Spanish personal finance management app Fintonic has raised EUR25 million in a funding round joined by ING Group and insurance outfit PSN.

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Australia's NAB and Westpac back data sharing startup Basiq

Australian open API startup Basiq has gained seed funding from Nab Ventures and Westpac-backed startup vehicle Reinventure as the country's banks prepare for a new era of client data sharing.

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ING-backed money management app launches in the UK

Yolt, a money management app backed by Dutch banking giant ING, has launched in the UK in open beta.

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Bank of America preps data sharing service

Bank of America says it is working with multiple financial data aggregators to provide customers with the ability to connect data from their accounts to third-party financial management applications.

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Robo-advisor Wealthsimple raises C$50m

Toronto-based online investment manager Wealthsimple has raised C$50 million from Power Financial to fund its growth ambitions in Canada and the US.

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Current and Empower join crowded money management app field

The fast-growing personal finance app sector welcomes two new players today - Current, an allowance management service for parents and their kids, and millennial-targeting Empower.

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SEC issues fake news crackdown

The US securities watchdog has issued a series of fines and penalties to individuals and entities for submitting hundreds of articles to financial websites which purported to be impartial endorsements of certain companies but which were secretly paid-for

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Payday loan firm hit by data breach

Wonga, a prominent UK payday loan firm, has warned 270,000 of its customers that their accounts may be at risk following a data breach.

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Meniga raises €7.5 million funding round

London headquartered personal finance startup Meniga has raised a €7.5 million funding round led by Nordic venture capital investor Industrifonden.

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FCA TechSprint tackles financial services and mental health

Helping people with mental health problems was on the agenda for developers attending the UK Financial Conduct Authority's latest TechSprint app development challenge earlier this month.