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Singapore's DBS Bank is to apply IBM's Watson cognitive computing platform to its wealth management business in a bid to improve the advice and experience delivered to affluent customers.
09 January 2014
South Africa's Nedbank is using social media analytics tools to win customers from rival banks by monitoring their chatter on popular forums such as Twitter and Facebook.
08 January 2014
Emirates NBD has added a 'shake n save' feature to its mobile banking app, letting customers move money to their savings accounts with a wiggle of their handsets.
Social gaming giant Zynga will start accepting bitcoin as a payment option in a move which has helped drive the virtual currency's price back past the $1000 mark.
06 January 2014
India's largest bitcoin exchange, BuySellBitCo.in, has shut up shop after the country's central bank issued a statement warning about the risks of using virtual currencies.
02 January 2014
The UK government is to begin consultations on new legislation to permit the use of smartphones for remote cheque deposits.
As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2013, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, features and blogs over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2014.
20 December 2013
JPMorgan Chase is looking for an innovation lead within its new Digital Customer Experience (DCE) unit.
US Bank is working on a new app that will enable consumers to use their mobile handsets to capture and buy products that they chance upon during their day-to-day lives.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced the creation of a new Euro Retail Payments Board (ERPB) to oversee the integration of the bloc's retail payments market in a post-Sepa environment.
19 December 2013
Bitcoin's price has plummeted today after China's biggest exchange said that it is no longer accepting renminbi deposits.
18 December 2013
MasterCard is looking to mine its trove of customer card payment data to build a site which will provide global travellers with a ranking of popular restaurant destinations in cities worldwide.
17 December 2013
Finextra TV/Innovation
John Elkins, president, International Markets, First Data looks at the pace of change in the payments industry and how that change impacts the company's own strategies for growth.
Norway has become the latest country to have its say on bitcoin, declaring that it is not a proper currency but an asset subject to capital gains tax.
16 December 2013
Credit Suisse is to launch an online app store where investment banks can buy and share their proprietary source code.
Will Cawthorne, head of sales, Impendium Systems, looks at the thorny issue of finding meaning in big data. Originally published on Finextra.com on:
MasterCard is advertising for software engineers graduating in 2014 to work in a new mobile e-commerce technology lab in New York City.
13 December 2013
A Dutch start-up has released a new iPhone app that provides an overview of more than 7000 crowdfunding projects worldwide, as new figures are released showing a sustained boom in the use of alternative sources of finance by small businesses.
ASB is celebrating becoming the first bank in New Zealand to reach 100,000 Facebook 'Likes' with a special donation to the Starship Foundation as determined by its Facebook community.
Stallholders at Covent Garden's arts and craft market in central London have been equipped with mobile point-of-sale card readers supplied by PayPal, enabling them to accept debit card payments over the busy Christmas shopping period.
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