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Yahya Mohamed Mao

Microsoft rolls out its financial services-specific cloud offering

Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services (MCFS), Microsoft's recently announced Industry Cloud, brings capabilities such as multi-level security and comprehensive compliance coverage to provide a differ...

05 Oct 2021
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Yahya Mohamed Mao

How Fintechs Tackle Social Concerns To Reach Unbanked Communities

While today's world is becoming increasingly cashless, it is hard to imagine living without a bank account. Banking is considered a safe and stable way to manage its finances. Alternative financial se...

30 Sep 2021
Inclusive FinTech
Yahya Mohamed Mao

The strive for oil-independence: Transforming from an oil-driven to a data-driven economy

The Arab Gulf States are in a historic transition as they seek to reduce their dependence on oil and natural gas and diversify their economies. Genuine economic diversification requires the Gulf state...

05 Aug 2021
Bigger than Technology
Yahya Mohamed Mao

Can Sustainability Be The Answer To A Growing Smart City Backlash?

The constant and ubiquitous transfer of data from various sources to a single government entity has led to concerns that these sources could turn into electronic panoptics as governments use data-driv...

02 Aug 2021
Going green
Yahya Mohamed Mao

The EU's Artificial Intelligence Act Could Become A Brake On Innovation

Europe is lagging behind not only the US and Japan, but also China in terms of technological innovation. According to a 2019 article on World Economic Forum (WEF), China overtook the EU with R&D ...

28 Jul 2021
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Yahya Mohamed Mao

AI is enabling digital transformation across the financial services industry

About half (53 percent) of financial service providers cited poor communication and project management as the biggest barriers to successful digital implementation. Lack of leadership and leadership v...

27 Jul 2021
Financial Transformation
Yahya Mohamed Mao

Why Traditional Banks Are Endangered By Extinction

Only 5 percent of the baby boomer generation uses direct banks. As of 2021 the youngest boomers are 57, the oldest 75. In the midst of a global pandemic, the branch model for traditional banks is chan...

20 Jul 2021
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Yahya Mohamed Mao

Uncertain Growth For Switzerland's FinTech Sector

The median value and number of full-time employees at Swiss FinTech companies were stagnating at 12% of total financing, with the median amount falling from 21 million Swiss francs to 14 million Swiss...

15 Jul 2021
Fintech
Yahya Mohamed Mao

The multidimensional characteristics of modern marketing

The emergence of digital technologies and communication channels is pushing ahead a change in paradigm within the fundamental concept of marketing. Marketing consists in creating value to customers ...

12 Mar 2021
Marketing in Financial Services
Yahya Mohamed Mao

A multi-level analysis of the not-invented-here syndrome

30 Nov 2020
Yahya Mohamed Mao

The role of Fintech Innovation in Smart Cities

First published on www.swissfinte.ch (Zurich, Thursday, October 2nd, 2019) Considering children as our legacy for the future has never been as striking as after the emotional speech of Greta Thunberg ...

05 Oct 2019
Fintech innovation and startups
Yahya Mohamed Mao

What is the role of IoT in Smart Cities?

In general, the term IoT (Internet of Things) refers to the rapidly growing number of digital devices – the quantity is now billions – these devices can communicate and interact with others over the n...

26 Sep 2019
Going green

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