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There has been a surge in venture funding for fintech firms over the last six months, culminating in a number of big bets in July, according to data from CrunchBase.
08 August 2014
Little more than half of Brits have used Internet banking in the last three months, according to data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
07 August 2014
The UK government is setting up a review into the potential of virtual currencies, and whether they should be regulated, as part of a wider push to make the country the fintech capital of the world.
06 August 2014
Improving customer experience has overtaken cost-cutting as the main priority for IT decision makers at British and Irish financial services firms, according to a survey commissioned by Fujitsu.
Brits under 50 use cash for a greater proportion of their transactions than those over 50, according to a survey commissioned by Saga.
15 July 2014
More than half of Brits visit a branch at least once a month and only a quarter would consider using a purely digital bank, according to a survey from Accenture.
14 July 2014
European retail banks need to radically overhaul their technology infrastructure if they are to face off the competitive threats to their business from a host of new startups, says consultancy Deloitte.
23 June 2014
The concept of legal tender should be abolished and private money should enjoy a level playing field that enables the likes of bitcoin to compete with state-backed currencies, a new think tank report suggests.
18 June 2014
Cash usage may be on the slide but notes and coins are still the UK's most commonly used buying tool, accounting for more than half of all payments last year, according to new figures.
06 June 2014
UK card spending has more than doubled over the last decade, topping half a trillion pounds last year, according to industry figures.
05 June 2014
Bitcoin may currently be going through an "adoption chasm" but the crypto-currency will have a profound societal effect, shaking up payments markets and other industries over the next few years, analysts from Wedbush Securities have predicted.
30 May 2014
Nearly four in 10 young North Americans would be happy to consider switching to a purely digital bank that has no branch network, a survey from Accenture shows.
27 May 2014
Bitcoin is still more of a curiosity than a threat to the banking system but in the long term the crypto-currency could have a pronounced impact on payments, according to a group of advisers to the US Federal Reserve.
20 May 2014
New York's banks will face new cybersecurity assessments carried out by the Department of Financial Services (DFS), under plans unveiled by Governor Andrew Cuomo.
08 May 2014
Nearly half of Brits have no intention of using the bank-backed Paym person-to-person mobile payments service, which launches tomorrow, according to a survey from Consumer Intelligence.
28 April 2014
Card payments have soared in popularity in the US over the last 10 years and now account for more than two thirds of all non-cash payments, according to Federal Reserve figures.
25 April 2014
More than two thirds of US financial industry participants think that the equity markets are not fair and half consider high-frequency trading harmful, according to a survey from ConvergEx Group.
24 April 2014
A lack of customer awareness could be hindering uptake of mobile banking services around the world, a new survey from BuzzCity suggests.
23 April 2014
Despite the hype, the vast majority of Brits have no interest in using bitcoin to shop online, with a lack of trust cited as the main barrier to uptake.
17 April 2014
US credit card fraud increased last year despite efforts by firms to beef up their security, according to an Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) survey.
04 April 2014
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