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Contactless and US EMV adoption drives global smart card growth

More than 1.5 billion smart payment cards were shipped in 2014 as the rise of contactless and America's migration to EMV technology drove growth.

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Credit card metadata gives shoppers' identities away - research

Individuals can be identified from just four pieces of credit card metadata, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found.

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Crooks net $11m in bitcoin scams - research

Scammers have duped unsuspecting victims out of at least $11 million in bitcoin over the last four years, according to researchers from Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

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Fed sets out faster payments options

The US Federal Reserve has set out a series of options for speeding up the country's antiquated payments system.

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Half of US retailers unprepared for EMV migration deadline - survey

With only nine months to go until the US EMV migration deadline, more than half of retailers are not ready for the switch, according to a survey from ACI Worldwide.

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11% of Android banking apps 'suspicious' - RiskIQ

More than 11% of Android banking and finance-related apps contain malware or suspicious binaries, according to research from RiskIQ.

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Trading talent and tech driving up buy-side budgets - Greenwich Associates

Institutional investors around the world spent more than $12 billion on their trading desks last year as they raced to keep pace with the growing speed of electronic markets, changes in market structure and lower trading costs, according to a report from Greenwich Associates.

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North American banks disillusioned with big data analytics - Aite survey

Despite the hype surrounding big data, three quarters of North American bankers are dissatisfied with analytics technology, according to research from Aite Group.

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AmEx uses Serve platform for consumer savings research

American Express is tapping into its Serve software platform for a research pilot into the savings behaviour of customers.

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Insufficient data the greatest obstacle to better risk management - bank execs

Despite ever-growing volumes of data, just over half of banks still think that not having enough is the greatest obstacle to better risk management, according to a survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

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Sifma slams Finra data collection plans

Plans by Wall Street watchdog Finra to introduce an automated data collection system designed to help identify risky and suspicious activities have been blasted by lobby group Sifma on cost, security and privacy grounds.

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November is card fraudsters' favourite month

As November approaches, data science company Feedzai is warning that the month is the fraudsters' favourite, when both card-present and card-not-present crime spike.

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Millennials and high earners drive North American adoption of mobile money and digital currencies

A significant proportion of North Americans - 40% - have used their smartphones to make payments at merchant locations, up from just 16% two years ago, according to an Accenture survey.

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MIT scientist develops algo to predict bitcoin price

Bitcoin's notoriously volatile price may look like it bounces around arbitrarily but an MIT computer scientist has developed a machine-learning algorithm that appears to have found a pattern in the mayhem, helping him to nearly double his investment in less than two months.

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Payments sector dominates booming fintech M&A activity

The value of fintech-related mergers and acquisitions hit $10 billion in the last three months, with deals involving payments firms dominating, data from investment bank Berkery Noyes shows.

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Crook dumps Target card details on Russian forum

A cyber-crook has uploaded the details of more than five million cards, many of them stolen during the data breach at US retailer Target, to a Russian carding site, says security firm Group-IB.

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Digital investments top priority for retail banks - BAI

Online and mobile platforms are the leading focus of technology investments for retail banks as they move to increase the functionality of their digital offerings, according to a BAI survey.

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US Treasury trading goes electronic

Nearly half of overall US Treasury trading volume is now executed electronically, with Bloomberg and Tradeweb dominating the fast-changing market, according to Greenwich Associates.

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Banks could make big T2S-related savings - research

Banks and brokers could save millions of euros if they act fast to adapt their securities and cash supply chains for Target2-Securities (T2S), according to Clearstream commissioned research.

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UK FS industry warms to cloud but security concerns remain

Nearly two thirds of UK financial services firms consider cloud computing very or somewhat critical to their enterprise IT strategy but security and regulatory concerns about the technology persist, according to research from Finextra.