Bitcoin payment firm Coinbase will open the first regulated bitcoin exchange in the US today in a bid to boost the legitimacy of the cryptocurrency.

Edinburgh-based personal finance platform Money Dashboard has completed a £2.5m funding round led by Calculus Capital.

Peer-to-peer money transfer group Transferwise has raised $58 million in a Series C funding round led by US venture capital group Andreessen Horowitz.

Venture Capitalists invested $2 billion in emerging payment technologies between January 2013 and July 2014 – but for card companies, this is a good thing.

Experian Data Breach Resolution is collaborating with card fraud monitoring mobile app BillGuard to enhance its fraud surveillance and identity theft resolution product ProtectMyID.