Due to popular demand, we have added four new categories to the Fintech Innovation Awards 2015. Companies can now be nominated for Fintech Innovation of the Year, Fintech Deal of the Year, Fintech Startup of the Year, and Fintech Leader of the year.
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Several Russian banks, including some that fell under Western sanctions over the country’s annexation of Crimea, will test a new national payment system on December 15th.
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Square has lured Visa’s Kevin Burke away from his role as core products chief marketing officer to lead customer acquisition for the mobile point-of-sale company.
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Things are looking increasingly bleak for the taxi payment app Uber, as a string of rulings have outlawed its use in countries across three continents.
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British technology developer Voicekey is launching a mobile point-of-sale solution that uses voice-recognition to authenticate mobile payments.
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New York bitcoin exchange SecondMarket nearly swept the US government’s second auction of crypto-currency seized from illicit online marketplace Silk Road last year, winning 48,000 out of 50,000 bitcoins.
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