Amex unveils digital payments platform

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Based on the Revolution Money P2P payments platform Amex acquired for around $300 million last year, Serve is already available in the US and will spread to other markets over the next year. Once signed up, users can an access accounts at the Serve [...]
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RBA calls for Australian payments innovation

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In a speech, ABA assistant governor Malcolm Edey says the bank understands it cannot "regulate innovation into being" but wants to work with the industry to foster co-ordination. Edey used the speech - which comes in the midst of an ongoing strategic [...]
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National Bank of Greece unveils concept i-branch

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The i-bank store gives "e-banking true physical form" claims NBG, with staff providing information and assistance relating to online and mobile services. The screen-filled branch includes a lounge area with a virtual sky [...]
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Visa and Samsung bring NFC m-payments to London Olympics

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Members of the public will be able to make low value payments by selecting a Visa mobile contactless application and then waving their handset against equipped terminals. The firms say they will give out the handsets to [...]
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7April: Thumb insurance for Twitter addicts and NFC chip implants

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 Online price comparison site Confused.com is apparently introducing thumb insurance for social media addicts. If you get Tweeter's cramp the policy offers a free emergency kit including Savlon cream and fast healing plasters. Saffron Building [...]
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Twitter analysis boosts trading results

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In a study, the Technical University of Munich economists analysed 250,000 Twitter messages written in a six-month period related to S&P 500 listed companies. They found the sentiment of tweets to be associated with abnormal stock returns and message [...]
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Virgin Media schedule Q1 results

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Virgin Media will be announcing its first quarter results on 20 April. At 1:02pm: (LON:VMED) share price was -15.5p at 1714.5p Story provided by StockMarketWire. [...]
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