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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

World Payments Report 2015

07 Oct 15 @ 14:02

Non-cash payment volumes are expected to continue on a high growth trajectory in 2014, according to the World Payments Report 2015 from Capgemini and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). They are... read more

More top banks pile into R3 Blockchain initiative

30 Sep 15 @ 15:23

Just week after Nine of the largest investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Credit Suisse, thirteen more top banks, including HSBC and Deutsche Bank, havebacked the consortium led by financial... read more

Top 5 Bitcoin alternatives

25 Sep 15 @ 12:18

Although Bitcoin is undoubtedly the most popular cryptocurrency, it is by no means the only one. In fact, the cryptocurrency arena is so rife that the other digital currencies have... read more

Did Australian banks unlawfully blacklist Bitcoin?

24 Sep 15 @ 10:17

Australia’s competition watchdog is set to investigate the country’s biggest banks for shutting down the accounts of Bitcoin traders. The ACCC confirmed the investigation to Queensland Nationals Senator Matthew Canavan,... read more

Bank of America files cryptocurrency patent

22 Sep 15 @ 17:06

The US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has published a patent filed by US financial services giant Bank of America that seeks to protect a system for wire transfers using... read more

Blockchain: it really is a big deal

17 Sep 15 @ 16:08

Over the past two decades, the Internet, cloud computing and related technologies have revolutionized many aspects of business and society. These advances have made individuals and organizations more productive, and... read more

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Wero expands merchant payments in France with Orange

06 Sep 26 @ 19:31

Wero is moving further beyond its origins as a peer-to-peer payment service, with Orange becoming the first merchant in France to offer subscription bill paymen... more

ECB and Brazil explore cross-border link between TIPS and Pix

06 Sep 26 @ 19:32

The European Central Bank and Banco Central do Brasil are examining whether Europe’s TIPS instant-payment infrastructure could be connected with Brazil’s hu... more

Authologic secures early role in EU Digital Identity Wallets

02 Sep 26 @ 20:55

Authologic has become one of the first companies in Europe registered to issue credentials for EU Digital Identity Wallets, as businesses prepare for a fundamen... more