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Bloomberg has added social sentiment analytics to its Professional desktop tool to provide traders with an early heads-up on market-moving Twitter trending topics.
03 March 2014
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has decided not to levy a 20% value-added tax on bitcoin transactions, reversing an earlier ruling that classified virtual currencies as gift vouchers.
Mt. Gox has filed for bankruptcy protection, a lawyer for the beleaguered bitcoin exchange told a news conference today. Meanwhile, new Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has said that the central bank has no authority to regulate the crypto-currency.
28 February 2014
Financial market authorities in New Zealand have approved regulations for crowd funding and peer-to-peer lending as part of the government's financial market overhaul.
27 February 2014
The rise of bitcoin over the last year has piqued the interest of cybercrooks, who have created more than 100 unique families of malware designed to steal virtual currencies, according to Dell SecureWorks.
Payment card rewards start-up Wallaby Financial has released a beta app for Google Glass.
26 February 2014
Bitcoin prices have cratered again after troubled Japanese exchange operator MT Gox suspended trading amid reports that it has allegedly lost almost $350 million to a year-long cyber-theft and is technically insolvent.
25 February 2014
Owners of the new Samsung Galaxy S5 will be able to use the handset's fingerprint authentication system to make payments at online and in-store merchants that accept PayPal.
A collection of US state financial regulators has become the latest body to launch an investigation into bitcoin and other virtual currencies. Meanwhile, the boss of troubled exchange Mt. Gox has resigned from the board of the Bitcoin Foundation.
24 February 2014
Paypal is to be the first payments provider for Samsung's new range of Gear 2 smartwatches.
MasterCard has added in-app payments to its MasterPass digital wallet as it bids to grab a slice of a fast-growing multi-billion dollar industry.
Peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle has been handed another £40 million by the British government to distribute to businesses.
21 February 2014
PayPal has hired programmer, computer scientist, and open source champion Danese Cooper as its first head of open source.
US digital banking start-up Simple has sold out to Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) for $117 million in cash.
20 February 2014
The Royal Canadian Mint has selected SecureKey device-based multi-factor user authentication technology for its new MintChip cloud-based digital currency.
Barclays Pingit is being used by Savills Auctions to sell houses, with one homebuyer already putting down a £23,000 deposit via the mobile app.
19 February 2014
Capital One has taken a stake in ClearXchange, the US bank-backed clearing house for person-to-person online payments transfer via mobile or e-mail.
Visa and MasterCard have announced support for Host Card Emulation, a cloud-based mechanism for hosting NFC applications outside the Secure Element that effectively removes the need for bank reliance on telcos in implementing mobile payments.
Spain's CaixaBank is taking a punt on wearable technology, developing Google Glass and smartwatch apps.
First National Bank of South Africa is applying motion-sensor technology at its flagship cashless and paperless bank branch in Cape Town to attract the attention of passers-by and encourage interaction with the screen.
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