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This year’s Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s report “Forging new frontiers: advanced technologies will revolutionize banking” based on a global survey of over 300 senior banking executives, highli
Retailers have been wrestling for months with the effects of COVID-19 — scattered workforces required to work from home, closed brick-and-mortar stores, dramatic spikes in online sales. And now, as th...
The extent of money supply increases needed to facilitate stimulus packages by sovereign central banks to counter the negative effects of the current crisis will dictate the inflationary pressures tha...
According to an April study published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), in fear of transmitting COVID-19 via cash, people are increasingly looking into cashless payments. With a sudden ...
Marketplaces are on the rise! A digital marketplace is an online platform, where different third-parties connect and supply and demand can be matched. This supply/demand can be a specific product or s...
Cryptocurrencies have been around for a while now, and we’re well past the point where they were considered a temporary, passing gimmick. At this stage, many people agree that cryptocurrencies are the...
Today, fintech firms and digital banks have become major disruptors of banking services and have transformed the traditional way of banking and payments that have been practised for years. Naming the ...
Last week, the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics took place online. Most of the discussion was dedicated to AI and linguistics, with round tables based around cognit...
Is there any aspect of our lives that isn’t wholly dependent upon trust? Our relationships with our partners, family, friends, colleagues, suppliers of our goods and services, medics, law makers, gov...
The advent of the telephone nearly 150 years ago, followed by the rapid creation of local, national and then international telephone networks, put an end to the use of the telegraph in trading of fina...
There is no more business as usual. Even before the sweeping changes brought about by the pandemic, global banking and payments were already experiencing unmatched upheaval – and that pace of change i...
Purchasing items on social media is a growing international trend with huge potential. During the COVID-19 crisis, 42% of people in an international Global Web Index survey reported spending a greater...