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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...