Barclays and Techstars, a global accelerator programme, have opened up applications for the third class of Barclays FinTech Accelerator. |  | | | | New Products & Technology |
Pocket Systems, an e-commerce security company, has launched PocketKey, a new system designed to tackle the problem of e-commerce credit card theft for consumers, merchants and banks. |  | | | Financial market operator SIX has joined forces with Swisscom AG, one of Switzerland’s biggest telecommunications providers, to create a nationwide mobile payments platform in collaboration with major banks. |  | | |
Lloyds Banking Group and the Cambridge Judge Business School have partnered to look at innovative digital opportunities for the future of banking and bank customers. |  | | | Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) will provide its online retail banking customers with a new secure mobile banking solution for their smartphones developed with VASCO’s DIGIPASS for Apps. |  | | | BitX, a Singapore-based bitcoin exchange, has partnered with Codapay, an alternative payments gateway. The two firms aim to enable merchants to process bitcoin throughout south-east Asia. |  | | | | |
