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Weekend FinTech Reading, January 25 – 26, 2014

It’s the weekend which means its time to catch up on recent FinTech news and reading.

It’s the weekend which means its time to catch up on recent FinTech news and reading:

Tech startups: A Cambrian moment (The Economist)

FinTech Startups:

Paypal competitor and FinTech darling Stripe joins the billion dollar valuation club. (Wall Street Journal)

Silicon Valley Banking: Wells Fargo creates new unit catering exclusively to start-ups. (Bank Innovation)

Banking & Mobile:

Next Generation of ATMs: Will new ATMs make your bank branch obsolete? (Market Watch)

Mobile Money: Wireless carrier T-mobile launches services for the underbanked - are banks failing to keep up? (Business Insider and American Banker)

Off the Big Banking Grid: One consumers’ experiment with mobile-banking. (Slate)

Bitcoin:

Maybe: Milton Friedman Predicted The Rise Of Bitcoin In 1999 (Forbes)

Disrupting the World Order: How Bitcoin is poised to change the global economy as we know it. (VentureBeat)

Bitcoin Eh?: Canada officially renounces Bitcoin as legal tender, despite growing presence of Bitcoin ATM’s in the country. (WSJ and MarketWatch)

Bitcoin Does Vegas: Select Vegas casinos now accepting Bitcoin. (Wired)

Coin Competition: LMAX-listed Ven giving Bitcoin a run for their digital currency. (FinExtra and BankingTech)

Because Robots Need To Make it In:

Corporal But Not Corporeal: U.S. Army studying possibility of replacing troops with robots. (Business Insider)

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