Halifax is the first UK bank to test electronic wristbands that use customers heartbeats to verify their identities in an effort to make online banking safer.
Monzo has advised almost half a million customers to change their cards pin number after uncovering a potential security flaw. The digital bank said it had incorrectly stored around 480,000 customer pins where they could be accessed by internal engineers.
Experian North America today announced that one of its business units experienced an unauthorized acquisition of information from a server that contained data on T-Mobile USA.
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The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) has announced a £200m loan to support the development of AESC’s gigafactory in the North East of England.
In the U.S. Samsung has began the roll out of the Samsung Pay beta program for its new mobile payment system. The beta program is open now for applications and will be accepted by special invite only.
BlackBerry today announced Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), one of the country's largest banks, is one of the latest customers in the region to deploy BlackBerry AtHoc, the company's secure crisis communications software.
Samsung announced today that Samsung Pay now supports eligible Chase Visa credit, debit and Liquid cards, as well as debit and credit offerings from MasterCard issuers.
Capital One has acquired San Francisco-based money management app, Level Money, the companies announced this morning.
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sync. is aiming to become the first digital smart open banking app offering an easy-to-use financial service across Europe, promising to manage every aspect of a user's financial life in one place. sync. says it was created out of frustration with traditional banks and the niche offering of new challenger banks that are not responding to all the needs of the end customer.
Swiss crypto bank Sygnum will open a metaverse hub on Decentraland, on 27 September 2022 at 11:00am CET.
Hoping Club has developed a decentralized trading platform and launched a developer program, where developers can focus on liquidity to build applications on the platform.
The NatWest banking app is now available on Apple's Vision Pro, making the bank among the first global banks to feature its app on VisionOS.
