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Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
All data is somebody's data. Not really owned - but somebody is having the often exclusive right to use it. Sometimes alone, sometimes together, sometimes the right to alter and delete it, sometimes no right to change or delete it. What will happen next - when GDPR is a? strong foundation and MyData.org - the global movement (now also legally inco...
21 December 2018 /ai
Loud and clear - Timmerman's horizontal responsibility (see page 40) https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/refit-platform-opinions-v26november2018_en.pdf With GDPR and MyData.org gearing up we will see a rapidly growing stream of RTE-data showing up in Life-event-driven service design. This can become a huge movement once people realize that ...
15 December 2018 /inclusion
Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services
The bridge over the Rubicon has been built and we now just wait for Caesar to cross it - key decision-makers in Rome have decided how to get themselves out of their impasse between their proposed Budget and EU Fiscal Stability rules. They have made up their mind to issue a parallel currency denominated in Euro in 2019, in the form of banknote-sized...
29 November 2018 /wholesale
Akshaya Bhargava Chairman & Founder at Bridgeweave Ltd.
Recently, while doing a demo of one of our products, I was asked “where is the AI in this?” The question is neither uncommon nor rhetorical but comes with much sub-text. Do we genuinely want to know how the machine has arrived at an answer? How many will even understand the method if it was explained to them? Or do we think that unless AI is demon...
28 November 2018 /ai
Retired Member
5 of the Hottest Fintech start-ups to Watch in 2019 Who are the fintech start-ups worth banking on in the year ahead? We are in the grip of a fintech revolution and 2019 is set to be a pivotal year, with seismic developments ranging from Brexit ructions to the onset of GDPR, the implementation of open banking data aka PSD2 and the ongoing evolutio...
06 November 2018 /startups
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
So many mighty and powerful are drawn to the African countries, and I am not even talking about Chinese and their generous investment in infrastructural projects in 53 out of 54 countries of the continent. There are also 500 more companies from around the world, famous and not so much, that are actively investing in various business projects in Af...
31 October 2018
Over the last 12-months, several high-profile FinTechs and challenger banks have experienced multiple outages for cards processing, leading to reputational damage, anxious tweets, irritated customers, and potentially, lost revenue. Why does it keep happening? Most FinTech money management companies and challenger banks issue debit cards for their ...
Shaun Thomas Product Manager at Namescan
Providing physical documentation such as your Passport or Birth Certificate to prove your identity is currently the biggest issue government services are facing in their attempt to digitally transform their service offerings. In Australia, the Passport Office still requires all applications to be lodged in person. Whilst I can understand the reaso...
30 October 2018 /regulation
Jason Bell Regional Sales Director, FS&I at ServiceNow
Face the music There are times when the power within a trend is not self-evident. It can appear to be a passing tremor in the status quo, rather than a movement or a development or a growing force that can possibly change not just how things are done but how the world perceives them. The impact of FinTechs on the financial services sector has been...
26 October 2018
Raz Rafaeli CEO at Secret Double Octopus
If today’s fintech sphere relies on one thing, it would be smooth and unfettered digital access. The fast pace of financial transactions and commercial activity means financial institutions need to give their clients and employees ways of moving funds and authorizing actions in a seamless and reliable way. When it comes to handling digital access, ...
24 October 2018 /security
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