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Everyone with kids aged nine and above must be painfully aware of the highly addictive online game that became their single most popular post-school activity. And not just kids are playing it: teena
Fundstrat chief analyst Tom Lee lowered his bitcoin forecast by the end of the year, a major Swiss stock exchange will launch a cryptocurrency ETP, Poland will impose a 19% cryptocurrency tax and othe...
“Request to Pay” or “RtP” is a new service planned for the UK by Pay.uk (formerly known as New Payment Systems Operator), and is likely to be adopted in some form within the Single Euro Payments Area ...
Every year, nearly 40 percent of all college students around the world receive a form of payment from their school to help with their studies, living arrangements, and more. Unfortunately, the majorit...
One of the most important aspects of being a successful person is knowing that “you can’t do it alone.” Something I learned at a very early age is that you are only as good as the people you surround ...
The modern workplace is undergoing tremendous change. In what is being referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, automation is quickly replacing jobs involving repetitive tasks. According to M...
In a number of my previous blogs, I’ve pointed to the importance of platformification, and the need for banks to explore new revenue models for Open Banking. In this blog, I’d like to explore the top...
For those recently travelling to Australia for Swift’s annual Sibos conference, currency exchange rates were an inevitable topic of conversation. The rates varied enormously, leading one of the major ...
I’ve been asked this question on multiple forums that why a bank is required to sell soaps, it is not their place to be and they’re not good at it so why bother, and they’re not wrong. This is not a b...
In 2016, Taipei-based Mega International Commercial Bank Co was fined a record $180 Million USD by authorities in New York, for having a “Hollow Shell” in their compliance program. As a result of t
Questions on the long journey Summarizing milestones - my own experience mostly based on Fintech in Finland and the other Nordics. (Union Bank of Finland>Merita Bank>MeritaNordbanken>Nordea ...
Earlier this year I wrote about the main reasons for using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to solve your use case. In summary these were: Trust Boundary Extension: does your use case need trust b...