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Bay Area top spot for fintech startup funding

Fintech startups in the San Francisco Bay Area tend to raise far more in capital funding than those in other parts of the US, figures put together by the Financial Solutions Lab (FinLab) suggest.

14 September 2015

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Polymer banknotes will cost UK businesses £240 million - CMSpi

On Wednesday, The Bank of England announced that the new £20 design will be the third banknote to be printed on polymer, following a 10-week public consultation that showed 87% of respondents were in favour of the change.

04 September 2015

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Two in five Americans use mobile banking monthly - ABA

Two in five Americans (39 percent) use a mobile device to manage their bank account at least once per month and nearly half of mobile device owners (45 percent) do so, according to a recent survey by the American Bankers Association.

04 September 2015

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Debit cards to overtake cash payments in Holland by 2020

The year 2014 at the Dutch Payments Association was dominated by the final migration to SEPA, the Single Euro Payments Area.

01 September 2015

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Third of Brits expect day-to-day mobile payments within five years

With contactless cards and mobile payments growing in popularity, a quarter of Brits think that in just five years' time they will no longer need cash, according to a survey for Lloyds Bank.

31 August 2015

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Payments UK sets out vision for 'world class' services

Trade association Payments UK has vowed to improve access to payments infrastructure and give customers more control over transactions as part of a drive to ensure Britain has a "world class" system.

28 August 2015

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US mobile cheque deposit takeup stutters

Despite the prevalence of cheques in the US, the vast majority of people still do not deposit them using their mobile phones, research from the American Bankers Association shows.

26 August 2015

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BBVA uses card transactions to map tourist spending in Spain

The French, British, Germans, Dutch and Russians are the biggest summer spenders in Spain, according to a study published today by the BBVA Innovation Centre in partnership with BBVA Data & Analytics.

20 August 2015

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E payments top priority for global companies - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

While companies around the world are taking note of the growing emergence of mobile and digital payment applications, many treasury departments still grapple with the continued existence and enormous cost of paper payments.

18 August 2015

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VC Experts and Switchback Partners to provide private market analysis

VC Experts, a data aggregator of privately held companies, and Switchback Partners, a software development team based in Austin, Texas that specializes in stock market trading and analytic platforms, join to reduce inefficiencies in the private market analysis and transaction space.

18 August 2015

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Growth stalls in US equity e-trading - Greenwich Associates

After years of robust growth, e-trading volumes in U.S. equities have flatlined since 2012.

12 August 2015

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Mobile up, branches down in American popularity stakes

While the internet continues to be America's most popular banking channel, mobile is fast catching up on more established rivals branch and ATM for the silver medal, according to an ABA survey.

12 August 2015

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Compliance becomes a core competence for financial firms - CCS

A new survey of financial services professionals conducted by Cipperman Compliance Services (CCS) reveals that asset managers, broker-dealers, and other firms are embracing compliance as a core function of their business, with an equal number of respondents reporting that they now spend as much on compliance as they do their legal counsel.

11 August 2015

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Blockchain poised to become banking's biggest disruptor yet - BBVA Compass economists

With dozens of the world's biggest banks already investing heavily in the blockchain, it is just a matter of time before the technology creates far-reaching disruption in the financial services industry, says a new report from BBVA Compass economists.

11 August 2015

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Alt finance market will grow by one quarter over two years - Amicus

Three quarters (73%) of institutional investors predict that there will be a growing institutional appetite for investing in the alternative finance market over the next two years as the sector will continue to offer attractive risk-adjusted returns, according to a new study by Amicus Finance Plc (“Amicus”), a leading specialist in short term lending solutions.

10 August 2015

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MPoS installed base to quadruple to 54 million units by 2019

451 Research: mobile point of sale (mPoS) growth continues as the technology deepens its reach across vertical industries, merchant tiers and geographies.

30 July 2015

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Payments and capital markets sectors dominate fintech M&A activity

There were 192 fintech mergers and acquisitions worth a total of $18.9 billion in the first half of 2015, according to research from investment bank Berkery Noyes.

29 July 2015

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Regulation drives growing Chinese ATM market

China remained the world’s largest ATM market in 2014, with installations increasing by 18% to reach 615,000 ATMs.

28 July 2015

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Banks lag manufacturers and telcos in race to build innovation centres

The financial services sector is trailing rival industries in the race to set up innovation centres in technology hubs such as Silicon Valley, according to a report issued by consultants CapGemini and Altimeter Group.

24 July 2015

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Wall Street eyes the blockchain

Almost all of Wall Street thinks that the blockchain could be applied to institutional capital markets and many firms are already actively reviewing the technology, according to research from Greenwich Associates.

23 July 2015