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Sandra Alzetta, head of mobile business unit, Visa Europe discusses the key to successful banking apps and the future of NFC for payments.
22 July 2013
News/Innovation
French software house Dassault Systèmes is to sponsor a '3D Fintech Challenge' at Canary Wharf-based accelerator space Level39 in a bid to find new applications for integrating disparate data sets within financial services firms.
19 July 2013
Banking giant HSBC is embarking on an egghead recruiting spree, advertising the "sexiest job of the 21st century"...data scientist.
The Future Foundation, along with Monitise, showcased their new report M-commerce: What consumers want from financial institutions at the Oxo Tower in London Wednesday. Finextra was there to live blog the event. You can also follow along on the hashtag #mcommerce.
17 July 2013
Zapp, the British mobile commerce company recently set up by VocaLink, has called in Oracle to help build its technology platform.
After years of pilot trials and road tests, French bank Société Générale is set to launch its first national commercial application of NFC-based mobile payments.
16 July 2013
A year after opening its virtual doors to the public, American digital banking platform Simple says it has 40,000 customers and is processing more than $1 billion in transactions annually.
Gamblers with a predilection for decentralised and anonymous currencies finally have a place to place their bets thanks to the opening of bitcoin-based prediction market, Predictious.
12 July 2013
Inter-bank co-operative Swift is to shut down its proprietary social network Swiftcommunity.net, after the forum failed to gain traction among users.
Financial technology start-ups have been showing off their wares to top executives from Wall Street at the third annual FinTech Innovation Lab 'Demo Day' in New York.
PKO Bank Polski has unveiled an online bank account for young children, where they can receive pocket money, set savings goals and top up their mobile phones.
11 July 2013
Braintree has begun offering its Venmo Touch mobile payments tool to banks, signing up Simple as the first partner to integrate the technology into its app.
10 July 2013
The UK government has opened its 'midata' innovation lab, enabling businesses to collect consumer data and use it to build apps that will help Brits manage their money.
A US start-up called Standard Treasury has developed a series of APIs designed to ease access to commercial banking services for small businesses.
Kenyan bitcoin wallet Kipochi has launched a service which enables people to send and receive the virtual currency and convert it to and from an M-Pesa balance.
08 July 2013
Tim Corke, VP mPOS at Monitise discusses the emerging mobile point of sale market.
PayPal is targeting the remittance market with a new service that enables French users to top up the mobile phone pre-paid credit of friends and family around the world.
05 July 2013
A group of six leading Polish banks have agreed to come together to define a common standard for mobile payments, creating a system that could threaten the dominance of Visa and MasterCard.
Stefan Thomas, senior developer at Ripple, a peer-to-peer payments network that supports bitcoin, told Finextra that he sees not just big business getting in on the act but the banking industry, too.
Germany's Wüstenrot Bank is piloting a new cashback loyalty programme from Red Zebra Analytics which presents targeted retailer offers to customers whenever they log in to their online bank account.
04 July 2013
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