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Online collaboration community Hub Culture is to make its Ven digital currency product available on Thomson Reuters data network and desktop terminals globally.
21 September 2011
Microsoft is pressing the Reserve Bank of Australia to consider adjustments to the domestic payments markets to help consumers conduct transactions in virtual currencies, such as Facebook Credits and Microsoft Points.
06 September 2011
South Korean police have arrested five members of a gang accused of using computer hackers from North Korea to steal millions of dollars in online gaming points.
08 August 2011
A person claims he was refused entry into the United States because authorities refused to believe that he was planning to fund his two month stay using the Bitcoin virtual currency.
27 July 2011
Virtual currency exchange MT Gox says that an anonymous hacker used phoney Bitcoins to flood the market and drive down prices causing a spectacular market crash last month.
05 July 2011
Germans watching the latest series of reality TV show Big Brother will be able to vote for their favourite Z-list celebrity-in-the-making using Facebook Credits.
01 July 2011
Within four years consumers will be able to leave their wallets at home as digital currencies supplant traditional payment methods for shopping at retail stores, according to forecasts from PayPal.
30 June 2011
The value of peer-to-peer virtual currency Bitcoin has plummeted after an account at MT. Gox, an exchange for the digital money, was compromised and a large amount of coins sold off.
20 June 2011
Peer-to-peer virtual currency Bitcoin has come under fire from US senators worried it is being used to anonymously buy illegal drugs online.
09 June 2011
Hub Culture, a self-styled online 'collaboration network' claims to have completed the first commodity trading deal priced in a virtual currency.
15 April 2011
Virtual online currencies and digital work are helping to fuel growth and provide real income opportunities to poor and unskilled workers in developing countries, according to a World Bank study.
08 April 2011
Finextra TV/Blockchain
Oti Ikomi, senior VP at Ecobank, a South African-based, pan-African banking group, talks with Finextra about the rise of the middle class in Africa and its affects on the continent's banking industry at Fundtech Insights 2011 in London.
17 March 2011
A project run by central banks of the 15-member Southern African Development Community aims to complete a pilot project harmonising the payment infrastructures of the four Rand Monetary Area countries within two years.
26 October 2010
Giorgio Ferrero stresses EBA Clearing's crucial role in achieving the euro payments area vision.
25 October 2010
Fundtech and Aite Group explain their recent research into corporate demand for mobile banking solutions.
Navinder Duggal, Head, Cash Product Management of DBS on new system selection.
Capgemini and RBS discuss the finding from the World Payments Report released at Sibos.
Barclaycard is set to ramp up its investment in contactless technology with the introduction of new form factors, including NFC stickers for mobile handsets and pre-paid wristbands for festival goers.
30 September 2010
Social media giant facebook is to offer gift cards loaded with Credits at retail stores across the US, beginning with the Target supermarket chain.
01 September 2010
Social network facebook is taking its virtual currency to the streets of South East Asia through a partnership with Internet payment group MOL Global.
09 July 2010
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