996 results about this entity
Period: 23 Mar 2006 - 28 Aug 2025
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Google has entered the credit market, launching a card in the UK that small businesses can use to buy its AdWords search advertising.
08 October 2012
Financial technology entrepreneurs are being asked to pitch their ideas for a London-based programme that will see them get assistance and advice from executives at major banks and venture capital companies.
24 September 2012
The Google Wallet has become a little fatter, with Barclaycard following Discover's lead and encouraging customers to add their plastic to the mobile payments system.
14 September 2012
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With 84% of the UK now able to recognise the contactless symbol on their cards - which psychological factors needs to be in place before more people actually use contactless for payments? Donna Dawson, a behavioural psychologist comments.
10 September 2012
Tap and go payments technology appears to have successfully established itself in the collective British psyche over the last year, with 84% of people now able to identify the contactless symbol.
23 August 2012
Barclays is preparing to roll out its Pingit mobile payments app internationally, beginning this week with a link enabling people in the UK to send money to Kenya.
20 August 2012
Jerry del Missier, the Barclays chief operating officer who was forced to resign earlier this month over the Libor scandal, is in line for a cash pay off of £8.75 million, according to Sky News.
26 July 2012
Real-world and online wags have been making the most of the Barclays Libor scandal and Bob Diamond's subsequent resignation this week, with a raft of satirical swipes at the disgraced bank doing the rounds.
06 July 2012
US regulators have published details of banks' plans for living wills, including information on how the organisations' IT systems will cope if they are shut down or broken up.
04 July 2012
As disgraced former Barclays chief Bob Diamond prepares to face a grilling from MPs over the Libor scandal, a flashmob has descended on one of the bank's London branches, with members withdrawing their money en masse.
With the RBS systems outage and Barclays Libor scandal fuelling public anger with Britain's big banks, Nationwide Building Society claims to have seen a surge in the number of people opening new accounts.
03 July 2012
The UK Post Office is to roll out contactless payment terminals across 30,000 counter positions in its national network of over 11,500 branches, in a move which exponents of the technology hope will help to boost awareness among a reluctant populace.
31 May 2012
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