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Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

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Customer experience and security But as in most industries, customer expectations and security challenges continue to grow along with technological advances. Banks continue investing in technologies that make the customer experience seamless, including mobile apps and peer-to-peer payments. Security and privacy.

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Blockchain: Distributed Shared Ledger Technology in Banking

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Over 90% of the world’s leading banks are either exploring, experimenting (PoCs), or formulating a strategy for leveraging blockchain technology, says an Accenture survey. Since its inception ten years ago, there has been plenty of hype around blockchain. How to get started with blockchain. Areas of impact.

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CrowdStrike incident has CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies

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“The outcome of the review may still be the same decision but necessary to review,” Gupta said, adding that DishTV is already re-evaluating its cloud strategy in a phased manner after the Crowdstrike incident. Organizations and CISOs must review their cloud strategies, and the automatic updating of patches should be discouraged.

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Banks adopting blockchain technology: Why, and which banks are leading the way?

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In today’s digitalized world, we are aware that blockchain has attracted many sectors, but finance is arguably the most prominent one. Blockchain focused on addressing the blackouts that occurred during the global financial crisis. In this blog, we’ll discuss the front face of blockchain in the banking sector.

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Why fintechs are buying up legacy financial services companies

TechCrunch

Over just the last year or so, we’ve seen: In February 2020, LendingClub announced plans to acquire Radius Bank in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $185 million. million in a deal that was designed to accelerate its acquisition of a national bank charter.

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FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked

TechCrunch

Much of the world’s attention around blockchain is on the highs and lows of cryptocurrency values. Startups like FlexID remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including offering trusted records of identities without the need for a centralized authority. million in 2016.

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How African CIOs can serve as agents of adoption for digital currencies

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The continent has not yet laid the foundations of the digital economy to impact the perception of digital money,” says Armand Ngueti, a technical specialist in computer science and president of the Blockchain Association of Cameroon (BAC), launched by the Cameroonian government. People still equate IT with bureaucrats.