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Week in view

Friday 03 February 2012

Misys and Temenos in merger talks UK core banking vendor Misys has confirmed that it has begun talks with Swiss rival Temenos about a possible all share merger.

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03 Feb, 2012

Plus Markets puts itself up for sale

03 Feb, 2012

Reuters opens social media hub

03 Feb, 2012

La Caixa opens access to banking via TV remote

03 Feb, 2012

UK and Swiss watchdogs launch formal investigations into UBS over trading scandal

03 Feb, 2012

Garanti gives cardholders Facebook Credits

03 Feb, 2012

SunGard models euro breakup impact on asset classes

03 Feb, 2012

US digital banking adoption and satisfaction on the up - comScore

Thursday 02 February 2012

Facebook IPO: Payments biz 2011 revenues hit $557m Facebook pulled in revenues of $557 million from its payments business in 2011 as its decision to force games developers to use its virtual currency bared fruit, according to the social network's IPO filings.

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02 Feb, 2012

US lawmakers bid to shut Iranian banks out of Swift network

02 Feb, 2012

Microsoft launches Kinect for Windows; Amex on board

02 Feb, 2012

TSE trading hit by glitch

02 Feb, 2012

MPs call for government cybercrime awareness campaign

02 Feb, 2012

Westpac wields the axe

Wednesday 01 February 2012

Bloomberg opens up market data distribution API Bloomberg has opened up its market data distribution technology, letting developers use its API without any costs or restrictions.

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01 Feb, 2012

City bins broadcast financial news

01 Feb, 2012

Brussels blocks Deutsche Börse/Nyse Euronext merger

01 Feb, 2012

Vista Equity Partners completes acquisition of Thomson Reuters risk unit

Tuesday 31 January 2012

MasterCard joins push for US EMV switch Following the lead of rival Visa, MasterCard has set out plans to push the United States into abandoning mag-stripe cards in favour of EMV chip technology.

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31 Jan, 2012

Visa joins $40m TrialPay funding round

31 Jan, 2012

Citi adds credit card account analysis tools to iPad app

31 Jan, 2012

NCR takes stake in video banking firm uGenius

31 Jan, 2012

Obama and Romney tap Square for donations (1 comment)

Monday 30 January 2012

Financial services firms and Internet giants team to fight spam Bank of America, Fidelity Investments and PayPal have joined with Google, Microsoft and Facebook to develop a set of e-mail authentication standards designed to reduce the threat of deceptive spam and phishing fraud.

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30 Jan, 2012

UBS 'rogue trader' Adoboli pleads not guilty (3 comments)

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