Vinod Sharma

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Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

Member since

20 Jan 2016

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Harare

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Passionate & experienced in IT, AI, BSS FinTech, Mobile Financial Services, Cross Border Remittances and Payments space. In past helped founding and set-up of several start-ups. Currently holds senior role in the FinTech company in Harare Zimbabwe.

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Worked in the mobile, e-commerce & traditional payments for merchants & consumers. Cross border remittances (on mobile) and mobile financial services. Now amalgamating artificial intelligence with FinTech to pull some good values of DataScience, MachineLearning, DeepLearning and Neural networks.

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Blockchain: The Strong Backbone for Businesses

What is Blockchain Technology? How one blockchain can have Infinite possibilities & opportunities in hand in this red ocean market world. Total Reading Time – 7-8 Minutes Some background Blockchain as on date is mystery story for many (Including my self). We have heard lot that it yields strong potential in global supply chain. It is beco...

22 September 2018 Blockchain Observations

FinTech - Machine Learning and Recommenders

I was invited as Keynote speaker in GCC Blockchain event in Dubai on 22 and 23 November 2017. I advocated for my area on AI and its subfield for FinTech. Also gave me lot of insight on how Blockchain can equally disrupt FinTech of rather doing it along with AI. In line with a Dubai goal towards making it the first Blockchain-powered government in ...

17 January 2018 Fintech

2018 Year of Intelligence - Artificial and Augmentation

This year my first post of the year is written from New Delhi India. Wishing you all a very happy new year. Year 1956 when ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was coined got its place in history and now Year 2018 will make people forget everything of past and will attain much more higher level respect for AI. As soon as it works, no one will call it AI anym...

11 January 2018 Innovation in Financial Services

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Apple Pay Cash and the matter of trust

Excellent Post Charmaine as always .... thank you .... My comment is apple is far behind in AI and FinTech is now getting reinvented under hard and extream closed focused of AI. Apple devices and producs needs to be more intellignet to handle threat intelligence by having fraud hunt techniques. I personaly like apple for my all devices use cases but fincial transction .... may be not yet .....

10 Jan 2018 11:00 Read comment

2017 Year of Digital Payments

I agree with you 100% Faiz

23 Jan 2017 18:49 Read comment

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