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By Christoffer O. Hernæs for techcrunch.com For years, payments has been one of the hottest areas in

By Ian Kar for Quartz.com The internet is infiltrating all of our devices, from thermostats

By Anurag Harsh for Forbes Anurag Harsh is Senior Vice President & Founding Executive of Ziff

By Jason Del Rey for Re/code Square has long generated the vast majority of its

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By Helen Cahil for City AM Financial marketplaces – crowdfunding platforms and other fintech sites –

By Telis Demos for WSJ The mainstreaming of blockchain tech continues.

By Sarah Gill for Paymenteye The threat of payments fraud is on the rise and

By Parmy Olson for Forbes, Facebook has big plans to turn Messenger into an “Everything App”

By Viktoria Ho for Mashable SINGAPORE — Samsung has announced a spate of mobile payments

By the Economist NORMALLY, it is Simon Taylor’s job to persuade sceptical colleagues at Barclays

2015 was still a busy year for blockchain. Venture capital investments topped $1 billion for

By Suzanne McGee for the Guardian Young people are using fintech for financial help, but

The world dreams of a cashless society. And as it acquires a multitude of non-cash

By Kristov Atlas for Coindesk.com In this opinion piece, Atlas discusses bitcoin’s ongoing block size debate, arguing

By 2019, eMarketer estimates that the total value of transactions made by tapping a phone

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The World Bank estimates that by 2016 there will be more than $700 billion sent

By Javier Saade for Huffington Post Capital is to economic development and finance what location

For centuries, banking has remained fundamentally unchanged. For the first time in banking, the online marketplace

By Steve O’Hear for Techcrunch.com GoCardless has become somewhat of a poster child for the

The P2P business model is starkly different from that of traditional banks and the opportunities

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By Hariett Green for City AM, The Asia-Pacific alternative finance market grew 323 per cent last

by Chris Skinner for BankNXT Chris Skinner reveals five use cases for emerging financial blockchains

By Judith Balea for Techinasia.com Vietnam-based fintech startup Momo today announced it obtained US$28 million

By Brian Yurcan for the American Banker journal So, do millennials hate banks or do

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