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Sam Goffman Business analyst at Forex
BitPay CEO Stephen Peir believes that the cost of digital money will increase significantly after it is actively used, the world's youngest cryptomillionaire ErikFinman wrote the “obituary” of Bitcoin and other news of the last two days. Last weekend, most digital money fell; many cryptocurrencies updated their yearly lows. At the same time, sever...
19 December 2018 /inclusion
Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank
Project management as a discipline has undergone a tectonic shift of implementation styles. It is one of the primary disciplines that acknowledges and put in place robust structures in place to assess and manage Risks. Risks that can hamper successful delivery or completion of the projects. With millennials joining the workforces and now entering ...
19 December 2018 /devops
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Many regulations impact the way banks and financial services firms make commitments or conduct transactions with partners and customers. This means that they must find relevant contracts, review the affected language, and then make business decisions to revise or novate the contract, renegotiate commercial terms, or terminate to avoid non-compli
17 December 2018 /ai /regulation
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
Crypto-Crypt or Gold Mine? As you probably remember, Bitcoin was the big news headlines and the dinner table talk of a year ago. As crypto-currencies soared in value, it was rightly the dominant topic of conversation. Crypto-currencies had advanced in value quite dramatically through the second half of 2017. Bitcoin increased from $1,000 each, to ...
13 December 2018 /payments
It has been quite a few years we’ve broken the cookie cutter career molds with bespoke paths to success. Even the definition of success has changed. Many of us live in naive or duality of the world where a stark difference that existed within our homes were two different value systems found a or collide as they may have a few times. I am someone w...
13 December 2018
Retailers are in the midst of the busiest shopping period of the year, starting from Black Friday, through to Cyber Monday, pre-Christmas, Boxing Day and then the January sales. Huge volumes of money will be changing hands, often in high-pace, stressful situations. While on the whole this will be welcomed by retailers, it doesn’t come without its ...
11 December 2018 /security /payments
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
I was in Chile two years ago, and some things have changed there by then, but not many. This is still a quite cash-dependant country with mundane issues over internet traffic pricing. Taxi that is taking routes like a bus. And the unrequited love for international AliExpress, Apple Music, Google Play, Netflix, etc. Seems that Chile’s biggest obsta
10 December 2018 /payments
Michael Pearson Founder at Clarus Investments
The valuation of fintech startups remains relatively high even though financial performance for most is very weak. Investors are currently supporting the higher valuations because of expectations of future performance, but the lack of profitability and in some cases very low revenues (given the investments made) cannot continue indefinitely. There...
10 December 2018 /startups
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
Tesco Bank’s £16m fine for its cyberbreach shows how the regulators are now truly baring their teeth on punishing cybersecurity failures. Financial and reputation damage from cyber attacks, therefore, are beginning to come with painful price tags (in fact the Tesco Bank fine could have been as high as £30m until the FCA was convinced the bank had ...
06 December 2018 /security
Social messaging apps are very common these days and we can't imagine any communications without Whatsapp, Facebook messenger, Wechat, Telegram, Facetime, or similar. Gone are the days when SMS was the mode of messaging and BBM (remember Blackberry Messenger) was the only secured channel available for corporations to rely on for business communica...
22 November 2018 /security
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