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Money is not the only thing banks store in their premises. The other valuables are counted in bytes — or even petabytes, i.e. client data. Everything about customers, from their personal information t...
Some time ago, I read an article by a former employee of a video store, which vanished from the surface because of the supremacy of video streaming services like Netflix or Hulu. Although the store s...
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Google Company — now renamed to Alphabet — started as an academic project on Stanford University exactly 20 years ago. After these two decades Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the students, who developed
There were the times when banks had almost everything. They offered deposits, loans, cards, money transfers, currency exchange, insurances and so on. And the most compelling thing was that they had al...
Recently I've made a post about the importance of preparing for PSD2 already now. Even though it got quite popular, I thought to myseulf - why don't we take a step back and focus on expaining banking...
The PSD2 directive will be effective starting from January 2018 — a plenty of time it seems. However, two years for EU member states and banks to incorporate new regulations are in fact very tight sch...
When banking APIs emerged, or even when their processing screen scraping technology was used, banks hysterically objected, trying to block this “extraordinary” access to their clients’ data. It wasn’t...
The mother of all European Union banking regulations, Payment Services Directive (PSD), was adopted in its revised version – the so-called PSD2 – by the European Parliament last October. This updated ...
How banks operate today is just outdated. Their procedures tend to be complex, inconvenient and offline. Either the banks will adopt new technologies or innovative companies will remove the banks fr