By: Lynsey Barber

I'm City A.M.'s award-winning technology editor, covering everything from happenings at Apple and Google to the latest London startup. In particular fintech, blockchain, artifical intelligence, driverless cars, virtual reality and the sharing economy get me out of bed in the morning. I'm always trying to illustrate stories with pictures of dogs. Sometimes with some success. I was named technology journalist of the year at the UK Tech Awards.

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Barclays is working with startup Flux to make your receipts digital and paperless

November 13, 2017

Barclays is the latest major bank to turn to a startup as we approach the era of Open Banking, when high street banks will have to work even harder to keep up with newer and more digital rivals. The bank is working with Flux, a UK fintech, for making receipts digital, initially in a trial [...]
Tech startup Trouva, a marketplace for independent shops, raises $10m

November 12, 2017

Tech startup Trouva, an website that provides independent shops with the ability to sell online, has raised fresh cash from investors. BGF Ventures has led the $10m (£7.6m) series A, with Index Ventures, a previous backer of fashion firms Farfetch, Etsy and Asos, and Octopus Investments also participating. Trouva acts as a marketplace for small [...]
Ada Health lands €40m from Len Blavatnik, Amazon Alexa creator William Tunstall-Pedoe and Google business chief Philip Schindler’s June Fund

October 31, 2017

The company behind a healthcare app which can help diagnose symptoms has landed a multi-million pound round of funding from investors, who include a top Google executive, the man who created Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and one of Britain's richest billionaires. London and Berlin based Ada Health has raised €40m (£35.2m) to grow the business [...]
Monzo now supports Android Pay, but not Apple Pay just yet

October 24, 2017

Monzo has added support for Android Pay, the latest new feature to be added by the digital challenger bank as it rolls out full current accounts. It's also the first digital wallet the fintech has added support for. “Our goal at Monzo is to make everyone's financial lives easier. That can mean helping you at [...]
London’s no longer the UK’s top smart city as Bristol overtakes

October 23, 2017

Bristol has overtaken London as the UK’s leading smart city a new index reveals. The south west city leapfrogged the capital when it comes to how it approaches digital innovation and its vision for a connected city. Under the so-called smart cities label comes tech such as driverless cars, 5G connectivity and "big data" – [...]
UK fintech startups are on track for a record-breaking year of investment in 2017

October 19, 2017

Fintech startups in the UK are on track to attract a record amount of investment in 2017 new figures reveal, bucking concerns that Brexit could derail the star sector. More than $1bn (£760m) has already been ploughed into technology firms hoping to disrupt finance this year by venture capital investors, more than double the amount [...]
Goldman Sachs and Citi among most active blockchain technology corporate investors

October 19, 2017

Blockchain is catching the attention of big business more than ever before with the number of corporate investors hitting a new high. So far this year, 91 firms have put their cash into the technology which has emerged from bitcoin but has wider applications. And that number is closing in on that of venture capital [...]
The Land Registry’s tapping tech startups to make property more digital with artificial intelligence and chatbots

October 19, 2017

The government department in charge of the country's property and land records is turning to startups for technological innovation. Land Registry will work with three property technology, or proptech, startups as part of a new programme aimed at improving property transactions A startup using artificial intelligence to help conveyancers asses risk, Orbital Witness, and another [...]
HSBC’s partnering with fintech startup Bud in latest Open Banking push for First Direct

October 19, 2017

HSBC is partnering with London fintech startup Bud in its latest efforts toward Open Banking. The bank will offer Bud's financial management tools under its online only brand First Direct in a new trial, hot on the heels of the launch of its new app Beta last month. Users will be able to see their [...]
UK businesses have slashed their cyber security budgets by a third

October 18, 2017

Businesses in the UK have cut the amount of cash they are spending on cyber security despite the growing threat of attacks. Budgets for security are a third of what they were this time last year, down to £3.9m on average, compared to £6.2m according to research from PwC. The cost of attacks has fallen, [...]

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