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US startup PureWrist is seeking to raise $20,000 on IndieGogo to begin live production of a contactless, wearable payment bracelet
12 June 2015
A $3 million pot put up by JPMorgan Chase is being split between nine finetch startups that have won a competition aimed at finding ways to help households better manage their money.
Standard Chartered has appointed its first group chief innovation officer, promoting head of risk innovation Anju Patwardhan to the newly-created position.
11 June 2015
A new and larger premises has been announced for Sydney’s independent fintech hub, Stone & Chalk, which has outgrown its first home before even moving in.
10 June 2015
Customers of Australia's Commonwealth Bank can now track the movement of share prices and perform everyday banking tasks with a tap of their wrists following the release of two new smartwatch apps.
A host of Wall Street heavyweights, including former Nyse Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer, have joined a $1.25 million seed funding round for Symbiont, a startup using the blockchain for "smart securities".
09 June 2015
Estonia's LHV Bank is tapping blockchain technology for an experiment that will see it issue EUR100,000 worth of "cryptographically protected" receivables claims against the bank.
British tennis champion Andy Murray has entered a long-term partnership with Seedrs, the London-based equity crowdfunding platform.
08 June 2015
Barclays is inviting young Brits to a digital skills workshop later this month where they can learn coding and build their own apps.
05 June 2015
Deutsche Bank is to open three innovation labs in Berlin, London and Silicon Valley, as part of a EUR1 billion spend on digital initiatives over the next five years.
03 June 2015
Engineers in China have developed what is thought to be the world's first cash machine to ditch PINs in favour of facial recognition technology.
02 June 2015
Financial services firms may dominate the list of corporate investors in fintech startups, but the biggest investment dollars are coming from two of the world's largest tech companies, Google and Intel, according to data from CB Insights.
01 June 2015
In our continuing series, in association with the Breaking Banks radio show, looking at accomplished and interesting women working and changing the FinTech sector, Liz Lumley sits down with Deanna Oppenheimer – Founder of CameoWorks and former head of Barclays Retail and Business Banking.
29 May 2015
Fintech may be all the rage, but it is in the mobile arena where the biggest bets are being placed, with over $1.1 billion raised globally across 58 financings in Q1 alone, according to data from CB Insights.
Spain's BBVA has introduced a 'remote control' Wallet app that enables users to activate and disable a host of card functions, from setting up transaction limits to blocking the use of the card for certain activities.
27 May 2015
A Canadian university is installing bitcoin ATMs across campus, and will accept the digital currency for the purchase of text books, in an effort to stimulate discussion about the future of money and innovation in financial services.
London-based business-to-business currency exchange Kantox has raised $11 million in Series B funding.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is to begin testing technology from Ripple Labs to transfer funds between its subsidiaries.
Australia's H2 Ventures, a newly-established fintech-focused digital design and investment firm, plans to raise a A$10 million war chest to fund the launch of 100 early-stage fintech startups over the next three years.
26 May 2015
The eBay Foundation and Village Capital are running a three-month fintech accelerator for startups developing alternative technologies for serving low-income households and individuals.
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