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Nets acquires Finnish firms Poplatek and Poplapay

Nordic payments service provider Nets has completed its acquisition of Finnish software developer Poplatek and its spin-off form Poplapay. Nets acting acquisitive…

10 Jan 2020

Banking Technology

Signicat appoints new CEO and chairman

Signicat, a Norwegian digital identity and electronic signature solution provider, has appointed a new CEO and chairman to accelerate its international expansion…

10 Jan 2020

Banking Technology

Canada’s major banks impersonated in two-year phishing campaign

Some of Canada’s biggest banks have been hit by a two-year phishing campaign which saw fraudsters impersonating them to harvest customers’ online…

10 Jan 2020

Banking Technology

Cautious optimism and a customer-first approach for financial services in the 2020s

Alessandro Tonchia, co-founder and head of strategy at Finantix, looks back at the financial services industry over the last couple of decades…

10 Jan 2020

Ethereum

Bugs Found in Compiler for Readable Ethereum Smart Contracts, Team Downplays Concerns

A Jan. 8 post published by the Ethereum Foundation (EF) revealed that developers are working on a new implementation of the Vyper…

9 Jan 2020

Banking Technology

Snoop picks OpenWrks to power its open banking

OpenWrks, the open banking provider, has announced its partnership with Snoop, the consumer champion app founded by a band of Virgin Money…

9 Jan 2020

Blockchain

Report: Ethereum, Tron and EOS Dominated DApp Ecosystem in 2019

DappReview published its 2019 insights on the decentralized app (DApp) space in a Jan. 8 report. Just three blockchains accounted for 98.65…

9 Jan 2020

Blockchain

US Grand Jury Indicts Ethereum Researcher Virgil Griffith Over North Korea Trip

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has filed an indictment against Ethereum Foundation researcher Virgil Griffith…

9 Jan 2020

Technology

NYC broadband plan calls for fiber everywhere, with ISPs sharing network

Enlarge / New York City. reader comments 100 with 68 posters participating Share this story The New York City government has released…

8 Jan 2020

Cryptocurrency News

Price Analysis Jan 8: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, LTC, EOS, BNB, BSV, XMR, ADA

The crypto markets continue to respond to the events happening in the United States-Iran conflict. Any sign of escalating tensions is boosting…

8 Jan 2020

Banking Technology

Atom bank’s former co-founder joins Queensland’s Daytek capital

Paul Hanks, the former chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of the UK’s Atom bank, has joined DayTek Capital as a technology…

8 Jan 2020

Banking Technology

UBS overhauls wealth management business, plans 500 job cuts

UBS, the Swiss multinational investment bank, is rearranging its wealth management business across Europe, Middle East and Africa regions in a bid…

8 Jan 2020

Banking Technology

Standard Chartered “first” bank to offer public platform to track payment status

Standard Chartered says it is the “first” bank to introduce a public platform for tracking payment statuses, “well ahead of the Swift[‘s]…

8 Jan 2020

Banking Technology

Singapore’s digital bank licence race heats up with 21 bidders

After announcing the release of five digital bank licences last year, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has now seen as many…

8 Jan 2020

Banking Technology

Bank of England and FCA plot internal data analytics shake-up

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) have outlined new plans to develop their in-house data and analytics…

8 Jan 2020

Technology