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Australia's ME Bank has opened its first mini branch - complete with a meeting room, an ATM, videoconferencing and online services - within a local telco's call centre.
08 February 2013
A new big data platform from a group of banking IT veterans is set to launch next week, promising to close the transactional loop that is currently broken every time a customer leaves a store with a paper receipt.
07 February 2013
JPMorgan Chase is to get a good look at the next generation of software geeks emerging from US colleges by launching a 'Code for Good' challenge at its offices across the US.
Gamification start-up True Office has formed a product development and distribution partnership with Thomson Reuters which will see the pair create regulatory and compliance training applications for the financial services world.
Australia's Commonwealth Bank says it took a start-up approach to the development of a new wealth management portal for self-directed investors that combines online banking with stock trading, property and portfolio investment, news and community forums all accessible via a single log-in.
06 February 2013
Barclays is inviting UK tech and design bods to take part in a pair of hackathon weekends where they will work on socially useful finance-related ideas.
First Direct CEO Mark Mullen has taken the unusual - and for a bank, refreshing - step of appearing in a video to apologise for the quality of the bank's mobile apps and to promise improvements based on customer feedback.
01 February 2013
Don Callahan, chief technology and operations officer at Citi discusses Google Wallet learning curves, his personal frustrations with banking and how banks should seek to 'make customers lives easier'.
30 January 2013
New York is to be the host city for the first in a series of fintech-specific Hackathons, in which coders from the vendor community come together to develop and present new ideas and software programmes to an audience of venture capitalists.
Non-bank competitors are winning the race to provide consumers with easy-to-use mobile wallet and payment applications according to a comparative study conducted by the US-based Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group.
28 January 2013
Spanish bank BBVA has set up a $100 million venture fund to invest in startups with the potential to transform the financial services industry.
25 January 2013
With funding from Spark Capital and Getco in the bag, Quantopian, a start-up building what it claims to be the world's first browser-based algorithmic trading platform, has emerged from beta.
24 January 2013
US peer-to-peer loan marketplace Prosper has raised $20 million in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital and appointed Stephan Vermut, founder of Merlin Securities, as CEO.
23 January 2013
The US state of Iowa is set to let residents pay some of their taxes using Dwolla, a local digital transactions start up.
Ribbit Capital, a new Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund focused purely on investing in innovative, tech-led financial services firms, has launched after closing its own $100 million fund.
Turkey's IsBank has integrated its mobile banking platform with its ATMs, enabling customers to set up a withdrawal through their handset and then complete it by scanning a QR code on cash machine screens.
22 January 2013
Green Dot Bank has launched a full-service bank account specifically designed to operate on a mobile phone.
16 January 2013
Barclays Bank plans to slash software development costs by 90% by building a private cloud infrastructure and moving more applications to machines running the Linux open source operating system.
10 January 2013
US start-up Movenbank, which has positioned itself as a mobile-only, cardless, branchless bank, may be forced to offer companion, plastic cards to customers in order to be compliant with MasterCard rules.
14 December 2012
In an effort to shock users into saving more for their retirement, Bank of America's Merrill Edge investment advisory unit has introduced a social tool that ages a picture of consumers, enabling them to see how they will look years down the line
05 December 2012
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