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Facebook reveals digital wallet plan

It will be interesting to see if Facebook has matured as an organization in recent years and can now navigate the tricky regulatory path surrounding crypto without making the sort of clumsy mis-steps it has taken in personal data.

19 Jun 2019 08:20 Read comment

Facebook reveals digital wallet plan

Glad to see you have ignored the Facebook spin that they are doing this to foster Financial Inclusion. I think we know why they are doing it.

19 Jun 2019 08:18 Read comment

Synapse raises $33 million to build the 'AWS of banking'

Surely AWS is the AWS of banking?

12 Jun 2019 13:39 Read comment

BBVA replaces interviews with a 'datathon' in search for next generation of data scientists

Love to see this. Shows a real demonstrable drive to change the DNA of the bank.

Not so surprising this should come first from BBVA. Interesting to see if more initiatives follow from other banks.

31 May 2019 12:22 Read comment

Facebook to launch cryptocurrency in 2020

Crypto. Facebook. Zuck. Possibly even the Winklevi.

What could go wrong?

24 May 2019 17:50 Read comment

K&H to run 'Innovathon' hack

Sadly. That'd be a typo David. Now corrected to Innovathon.

Another busy day in the newsroom.

You can take INVATHON and run with it, though :-)

05 Apr 2019 20:23 Read comment

First operation held using exoskeleton developed in Sberbank’s Robotics Lab

Curious departure for a bank's innovation lab. Not sure if we should applaud their pursuit of the application of each innovation, even if heading well off brief for a bank. 

Interested to hear how far other bank innovation labs push their brief out beyond financial services?

13 Mar 2019 08:52 Read comment

German startups figo and finreach to merge

First disintermediation. Then simply disruption. Most recently, collaboration. Now, consolidation.

Another phase in the evolution of fintech. 

05 Mar 2019 13:14 Read comment

Facebook acqui-hires Chainspace team for blockchain push

Blockchain will fix famine, solve world peace, cure diseases obvs - but not sure if even Blockchain can fix Facebook.

05 Feb 2019 17:23 Read comment

ING builds analytics academy to help employees with data skills

This is a good initiative. The general % of data smart / data aware people is way too low in most non-tech organizations. It is one blocker on digital transformation that slows progress and limits potential.

18 Jan 2019 08:16 Read comment

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