We sat down with Dan Cobley, co-founder and CEO of Brightbridge Ventures and chair of judges at the FinTech Innovations Awards 2016, to find out what the judges are looking for in winning entries.

Barclays is launching a new physical and virtual space for the FinTech community in Tel Aviv next year that will also host the country’s first cohort of the Barclays Accelerator.

Paysafecard, a Vienna-based prepaid online payment company, has begun its expansion into the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa), making Kuwait the 41st market to use its prepaid solutions.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has become the latest bank to implement a migration strategy for digital services by investing roughly $70m a year on transforming the bank’s 1,000-plus branch network.

VocaLink, a British payments solution firm, has teamed up with Thailand’s interbank payments network National ITMX, with the two groups looking to deploy a mobile payments network in the country.

This infographic shows the importance of the millennial shopper and what could happen to retailers’ profits if they fail to recognise it.