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Seven critical changes to payments industry as FinTech matures
The FinTech sector is being shaped by shifting market conditions, new regulations, and changes in consumer demands and behaviors. For the past decade, FinTech companies have moved quickly, forcing incumbents to rethink their core business models and embrace digital innovations. But now, the FinTech industry is itself maturing and entering a period of rapid change. Companies wondering how [...]
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Open data – competition needs to work for both FinTechs and Banks
“Silicon Valley is coming”. That’s what JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon wrote to shareholders in 2015. Dimon had been to the Valley and seen money pouring in to innovative start-ups, targeting the lending and payments space. Many other bankers have been since and come away with similar views. Dimon et al saw by using big [...]
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Cyber security: top tips for the mobile enterprise in 2017
Millennials are set to outnumber baby boomers in the workplace this year for the first time. With a millennial workforce comes a demand for much more than a pay cheque. Flexibility is now a key differentiator when it comes to attracting new talent. However, with great flexibility comes great responsibility… and a massively increased cyber [...]
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What’s up with WhatsApp? Why it’s not as secure as you thought
There’s been a lot of discussion in the media recently about the privacy of calls and messages sent via mobile phones, with some commentators advocating apps like WhatsApp as the answer. While it is true that messages, and now calls, made using WhatsApp are encrypted and therefore should be secure, in fact, there are still [...]
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Prints charming: biometric security reaches the billions
According to Deloitte, the active base of fingerprint reader-equipped devices offering biometric security will top 1 billion for the first time in early 2017. Each sensor will be used, on average, 30 times a day, resulting in more than 10 trillion aggregate uses globally. According to Deloitte, approximately 40% of all smartphones in developed countries will [...]
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