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Whilst many will put 2015 down as the year of hype for Bitcoin, this infograph shows that the predictions for the cryptocurrency are still grand.  

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Digital payments experts Consult Hyperion have partnered with the Payment Business School, specialists in payment education, to roll-out a series of in-depth training courses in 2016 on a range of hot industry topics such as mobile and cloud based payments, tokenisation, digital identity, authentication, mobile and tablet based POS and Blockchain. With continued growing interest [...]

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Bitcoin is a powerful and successful digital currency. Based on cryptography and a decentralized ledger, it has simultaneously been heralded as the future of finance and a gateway to the criminal underworld. Governments around the world are pushing an agenda which would see the banning of end-to-end encryption on one hand and the anonymity of [...]

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BNP Paribas, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, ING, MacQuarie and Wells Fargo are the latest major financial institutions to partner with distributed ledger startup R3 CEV. With the announcement, R3 brings the number of financial institutions participating in its stealth initiatives to 30, with other major names including Bank of America, BNY Mellon, Citi, HSBC [...]

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The term FinTech has come to dominate the headlines of all industry magazines but also the mainstream press. London in particular has made enormous strides in the last year or so and has now surpassed silicon valley in terms of total dollars invested into FinTech. The Infograph below explores the current state of FinTech:

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