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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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EMVCo data reveals 30% of global card-present transactions conducted via EMV

Official figures released by the global technical body EMVCo show that nearly 30% of all card-present transactions conducted globally between July 2013 and June 2014 used EMV chip technology.

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Citi launches capital analytics service

With Citi Working Capital Analytics, organizations can benefit from real-time, in-depth analysis of their payables, creating differentiated value through payment efficiencies, cost savings and working capital optimization.

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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.

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Digital payments crucial to economic growth - World Bank report

Governments should step up efforts to boost the use of digital payments in developing countries to increase financial inclusion, empower women and spur economic growth, according to a World Bank report.

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Americans embrace mobile banking but the branch makes comeback

The Internet continues to be America's most popular banking channel but is losing ground to mobile, ATMs and even branches, according to an ABA survey.

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VCs join fintech gold rush

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.

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Many Brits still not banking online - ONS stats

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).

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Osborne looks to virtual currencies in bid to make UK world fintech capital

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.

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Boosting customer experience is top IT priority for UK and Ireland FS firms

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.

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Saga generation less wedded to cash than under 50s

Brits under 50 use cash for a greater proportion of their transactions than those over 50, according to a survey commissioned by Saga.

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Brits lukewarm on digital-only banks as branch visits increase

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.