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PayPal is taking its seductive “buy now, pay later” service to Australia, after successful roll-outs in Britain and the US saw it handle more than £540m of transactions by the end of 2020. It’s ...

As a rule of thumb, we wish only misery and ruin on Bitcoin investors for daring to make the phenomenon sound any more sophisticated than a Bet365 advert. But our maniacal propensity for ...

Forget the end of cash, say goodbye to your platic bank card

Fintech leaders in traditional banks are making significant progress but major challenges remain

Can you describe what an API is in two sentences? If you work in a bank you might have to.

My troubles getting a press pass online for SIBOS made m,e appreciate how easy mobile banking is

Evolution AI is selling technology to banks that can enable a computer to read any text in any document and make decisions based on what it reads

Fintech is not just about investors making money

Azimo has made its first profit as the fintech moves onto its next phase of growth

Funding Options took a few years to realise that dating sites were the perfect model for a fintech helping small businesses get access to the right loans for them

FutureBricks is offering savers better rates through lending to the SME building industry

TSB has integrated biometric ID technology into its mobile app to enable people to open accounts with a selfie

Esme Loans has emerged from an RBS innovation initiative and after a controlled launch is ready to scale its business

Open banking has some way to go before and banks' shouldn't pin all their hopes on Millennials

There is life in UK tech beyond the Big Smoke

Lloyds Banking Group launches the latest edition of its open banking journey

HSBC is taking advantage of fintech to test out features before fully integrating them into the main mobile app

Bank branches are no longer needed for that hum an touch

London might be one of world’s fintech hubs, but Brits are still wary of new tech for banking

Tink is a Swedish fintech which realised a complete change of its business model was in order if it were to meet its growth potential

Nationwide Building Society offering fintechs funding and mentoring in a challenge to create apps for the financially vulnerable

Facebook is closing its peer to peer payments service within Messenger in the UK because of limited take up

Would you ditch your bank or building society if its digital services didn't match up to Google?

Nationwide Building Society creating business banking platform with 10 X

NatWest is the latest bank to offer its baseline open banking service

A third of UK startups are readying themselves for Brexit by setting up operations on mainland Europe

Finastra is an IT supplier build on very old foundations but fintech disruption has forced it to extend beyond them

Could BBVA follow Lloyds Banking Group onto the Google inspired banking platform from Thought Machine

Open banking is one year old, but how has the first year been for the fintech's who will give it meaning

Open banking regulation will transform the financial services sector but don't expect changes overnight

The integration of digital bank Fidor to BCPE's business fails to materialise

Finetch Akoni brings corporate treasury capabilities to the SME sector with Google functionality the Holy Grail

India is an opportunity and a threat when it comes to any tech focused sector and the UK government wants to ensure it is a friend in Fintech.

This is a guest post by Bhupendra Warathe, chief information officer for corporate and institutional Banking, information technology and operations at Standard Chartered Bank As the world adopts ...

Banking IT professional speaks out against worrying software development methods used in the UK

Read how UK insurtech Wrisk was born and raised

Why do UK banks suffer more outages than banks in other countries?

Who are the UK companies trying to have a share of the trillions of pounds that will be created by the Blockchain industries

The fintech industry is maturing to the point that it now has subcategories, find out about some of the companies making hay in the sector.

An insurtech company set up a few years ago has dislodged 130 year old global insurance giant Allianz in BMW deal

If banks and big tech firms go head to head for customers fintechs will benefit because the banks need them if they are to have any chance of winning the customer satisfaction battle

Virgin Mooney will probably scrap its plan to build a digital bank if it merges with Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks, because the latter already has an established bank.

Fintech driven challenger banks could make white label banking services attractive to businesses in various consumer facing sectors

Open Banking has arrived and will gather pace over the coming tears, but what should organisations consider when they join the revolution

Not that surprising in this day and age that a large software company puts its European fintech resources in a city other than London

I recently caught up with Gary Turner, co-founder and managing of director of Xero. I was interested in meeting him as Xero has a reputation as the company that broke all the rules of ...

London should not be seen as competition for fintechs in the North and they should not try to emulate London's fintech model

I would be tempted to move to a bank that offered higher interest rates even though it had just had an IT disaster

Is the use of Agile and Devops partly to blame fir the increasing number of IT failures at banks on recent years and is there anther way?

Banks are taking their brand names off the high street and might increasingly do so for services they offer to ecommerce companies

One of machine learning’s most well-known use cases is fraud detection, an area that has drawn the attention of a growing number of technology suppliers looking to develop the best algorithms and ...

If customers don't want to suffer glitches in their banking service they should ask about complexities of a bank's IT systems before selecting where to out their money

More details of RBS's digital bank revealed

Human error to blame for problems at Ulster bank but a computer was involved

TSB customers have experiienced serious proiblems as the bank migrates to its new core banking platform

What will happen to London's high streets when robots replace the people that buy all the flat whites?

Fintech is coming of age and faces all the challenges that growing up entails

Is it that shocking that people will be paying for buses using cryptocurrency within seven years?

Virgin Money was one of the earlier challengers to traditional banks and is now creating a digital bank to keep up with the times

Fintech companies could be the hardest hit tech firms in the UK if there is no good deal with the EU after Brexit

If you are a Lloyds Banking Group credit card holder that fancies a flutter on cryptocurrencies ,think again it's banned.

Monzo bank has broke the mould be giving customers a detailed explanation of what cause a glitch in their banking service

Organisations that need an app to solve a business challenge can offer a cash reward to entrepreneurs that find the answer

Blockchain becoming so mainstream that it is being discussed in the playground, but banks just see it as another technology

DBS Bank, Southeast Asia’s largest bank by market cap, has claimed the honour of having the world’s biggest banking API (application programming interface) platform with over 155 APIs that ...

Cash is still king in Singapore, especially at mom-and-pop shops that have to pay credit card fees that do not make business sense for small transactions. In a bid to encourage greater adoption of ...

Over a quarter of Aussies are now ready to use an internet-connected device, like a virtual assistant or connected fridge to make payments on their behalf, according to a new YouGov study ...

With a tech-savvy population and a smartphone penetration rate of 150%, Singapore’s adoption of digital payments is abysmal. Cash is still king in the city-state, especially in the heartlands where ...

Sage Software, the financial accounting software vendor, has recently held its 2016 Sage Summit in Chicago. Over double the size of last year’s event in New Orleans, what did the event have to say ...