Row 1 - Latest/Ad/Opinon/Ad
Row 1 - Latest/Ad/Opinon/Ad
Fintech: Latest
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Technology companies are looking to create digital workers to help banks build leaner operations – but human workers have nothing to fear. -
Biometrics will help online retailers protect themselves from fraud – but maintaining customer experience at the same time may be a challenge.
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A new, unique end-to-end transaction reference is a big step forward in tracking cross-border payments, identifying hidden costs and improving payment speeds.
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A new generation of digital products has slashed the cost of remittances and helped the unbanked meet short-term household or business liquidity needs, but there has been a downside.
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Under-investment in post-trade infrastructure is driving interest in distributed ledger technology as a means of reducing back-office costs.
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Mettle starts digital-bank spawn from leading UK lenders; new IT system to enable more user-friendly design.
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UOB responds with announcement of Grab alliance.
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Central bank taking further action to lower credit costs through competition; Banco Inter’s post-IPO growth shows digital banking opportunity.
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Forget raising money by selling your crypto tokens, just give them away to as many potential users as possible and raise value through network effects is the new thinking from crypto-land.
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Even as the most infamous cryptocurrencies crashed this year, new ones were already emerging, designed to peg their value to fiat currencies. The most popular of the so-called stablecoins, Tether, broke its peg to the dollar in October, raising questions over the best design for these instruments and the worry that they may be just the latest crypto fad to sucker in the unwary. But if they succeed, stablecoins could prove a tipping point for broader crypto adoption and the reinvention of money.
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Banks and traders tout efficiency and the trust benefits of a new fintech platform, but key absentees mitigate the hoped-for 'network effect'.
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Eight banks have gone live with the Voltron initiative, an open platform for documentary trade.
