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2015 in Review: The year that FinTech hit form

03 Feb 16 @ 11:23

What a difference twelve months can make. Industry conversations at 2014’s Mobey Day, (Mobey Forum’s annual open conference for all mobile money stakeholders) told of an industry undergoing major FinTech... read more

Digital Payments Survey

01 Feb 16 @ 15:53

Payments Cards & Mobile, the award-winning publisher, and American Express, a leading global payments brand, have partnered with payments consulting firm Accourt to conduct a survey on the state of Digital Payments.... read more

Building on the Blockchain

29 Jan 16 @ 11:27

Following the announcement by more than 20 of the world’s largest banks that they are collaborating to develop common standards for Blockchain technology, PCM examines the implications of a decentralised,... read more

R3 conducts Blockchain trail with first 11 banks

21 Jan 16 @ 12:18

R3 CEV is set to trial its first Blockchain experiment using Ethereum and Microsoft Azure’s Blockchain as a Service, and involving 11 of its member banks. The R3-managed private peer-to-peer distributed ledger... read more

Bitcoin was Top Performing Currency of 2015

13 Jan 16 @ 11:12

For most investors, the major story of 2015 was the expectation and eventual fulfillment of a rate hike, signalling the start of tightening monetary policy in the United States. This... read more

MintChip digital currency acquired by NanoPay

13 Jan 16 @ 11:04

The Royal Canadian Mint’s fledgling digital currency program, MintChip, has been acquired by local startup NanoPay which has plans to commercialize the technology this year. NanoPay, which has developed a mobile payment service it says... read more

Bitcoin will continue to grow in 2016

06 Jan 16 @ 11:35

Whilst many will put 2015 down as the year of hype for Bitcoin, this infograph shows that the predictions for the cryptocurrency are still grand.  

Payment Business School announce the roll-out of a series of retail and mobile payments training courses

08 Dec 15 @ 12:21

Digital payments experts Consult Hyperion have partnered with the Payment Business School, specialists in payment education, to roll-out a series of in-depth training courses in 2016 on a range of... read more

Dark Markets: Anonymity in Bitcoin

27 Nov 15 @ 13:11

Bitcoin is a powerful and successful digital currency. Based on cryptography and a decentralized ledger, it has simultaneously been heralded as the future of finance and a gateway to the... read more

R3 signs 5 more banks

20 Nov 15 @ 12:02

BNP Paribas, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, ING, MacQuarie and Wells Fargo are the latest major financial institutions to partner with distributed ledger startup R3 CEV. With the announcement, R3... read more

The State of FinTech in 2015

19 Nov 15 @ 11:01

The term FinTech has come to dominate the headlines of all industry magazines but also the mainstream press. London in particular has made enormous strides in the last year or... read more

ECJ rules Bitcoin and exchanges are VAT-exempt

22 Oct 15 @ 14:29

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that bitcoin exchange transactions should be exempt from VAT. The ECJ ruling stated that bitcoin transactions “are exempt from VAT under the... read more

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Visa turns the card into an identity credential

12 May 26 @ 15:44

Visa has launched a new tap-based authentication technology that could reshape how banks verify customers in mobile banking environments. [caption id="atta... more

Emerging markets accelerate the shift to cashless payments

30 Apr 26 @ 18:03

Cashless payments are becoming an increasingly important marker of financial modernisation across emerging market and developing economies, with new data from t... more

Santander backs Ebury’s next phase with fresh funding

05 May 26 @ 16:52

Banco Santander has reinforced its commitment to Ebury after taking part in a funding round of about £550mn for the cross-border payments and trade finance fin... more