Financial Solutions
Visa acquires fintech start-up Plaid for $5.3bn
Plaid turns $310m in venture funding into a tidy $5bn profit for backers of 2013 fintech start-up
Facebook Pay rolls out in the US following India trial
Facebook Pay joins an increasingly crowded market for online payment, with Google launching banking services next year
Google plans to offer current accounts to customers via Google Pay
Google's banking service will be offered in partnership with Citigroup
Blockchain could kill off the City of London and the taxes that pay for the NHS
Blockchain will render the City of London irrelevant, taking with it the personal and corporate taxes that effectively fund the NHS, warns Business 5.0 expert John Straw
Backbytes: Why do banks make it so difficult to do banking in their own branches?
Banks and retailers trying to drive customers to their online channels are undermining their own 'unique selling point' against pureplay online rivals
London overtakes New York and San Francisco for number of fintech investment deals
But San Francisco still tops the list for total deal value
How PSD2 will affect payments for banks and business
Nic Feare examines the changes that the Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2) will make to banking and business
Interview: Chris Evans, platform team lead at Monzo
The app-based bank has tripled in size in 12 months - how have the technology teams coped?
Facebook to launch global cryptocurrency Libra in 2020
Facebook has established a new subsidiary called Calibra to create financial services for Libra
How Monzo leveraged AWS and Kubernetes to build an agile retail bank
AWS was key in helping Monzo to comply with the heavy regulations needed to gain a banking licence
Managing transactions and analytics simultaneously in the high-speed world of financial services
HTAP databases can deliver the performance of an in-memory database with the persistence and reliability of a traditional operational database
Branching out: How data streaming technology can help banks reach an international audience
Fintech startup Orwell Group aims to cut the cost and risk for banks looking to expand into new territories
Fintech Sector Strategy is good for the industry, says Starling
Government hopes to extend fintech outside London
Venezuela claims to have generated $735m on first day of Petro cryptocurrency
Venezuelan cryptocurrency "can take on superman", claims President Maduro
What does the Lloyds hire and fire mean for UK IT?
Computing questions the banking industry about legacy IT, retraining and offshoring
eBay to jettison PayPal by 2023 in a bid to reduce payment processing fees
Dutch payment service Adyen to supplant Paypal as eBay's main payments service from 2020
Venezuela's oil-backed cryptocurrency could be launched this week
'Petro' cryptocurrency will be backed by Venezuela's oil and gas assets
UK and EU will crack down on Bitcoin due to tax evasion fears
The UK and EU Governments have unveiled plans to crack down on Bitcoin
American Express introduces new platform to take blockchain payments using Ripple protocol
Amex partners with Santander for blockchain-based payments system based on Ripple's technology
New cryptocurrency exchange promises to bring virtual currencies to everyday purchases
The LBX Dragoncard will be accepted anywhere that takes Visa (so, everywhere)
Mobile banking beating physical branches, says report
Online banking trumps physical branches, claims Visa report
Visa integrates biometrics for credit card payments
Visa plans to tighten payments with biometric authentication - although 'cardholder not present' will remain a problem
IBM simplifies HSBC document management with analytics tools
40 pages of documents need to be reviewed for an average transaction, and IBM is speeding the process
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