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Santander is aiming to become the first UK bank to use blockchain to enable customers to make faster and cheaper international payments.

A financial advisory firm in Staffordshire has expanded its footprint four-fold with the support of a 'significant' funding deal with Santander Corporate & Commercial.

Funding Circle is set to be the first European peer-to-peer lender to have loans from its platform securitised, setting a precedent that could attract additional funding to the industry.

Former US treasury Secretary Larry Summers is to chair a new tech-focused international advisory board formed by Banco Santander. The seven-member panel includes prominent tech leaders such as Charles Phillips, the former president of Oracle and CEO of Infor, Francisco D'Souza, Chief Executive Officer of Cognizant, and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.

Santander is launching a service that will allow customers to use voice recognition technology to tell their mobile phones to monitor and recount their spending habits and make payments on the move. Santander has claimed to be the first bank in the UK to enable customers using an iPhone to talk to its banking app, SmartBank.

A new report released by the Mayor of London has outlined the potential key role London can play in the emerging smart city technologies market. The 'Future of Smart' report, an update on the city's progress in meeting the conditions of the Mayor's Smart London Plan of December 2013, reaffirms the capital's commitment to capitalising on the potential £8.9bn smart city technologies market by 2020.

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