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Are businesses taking the threat of cybercrime seriously?

By David Simmons   The news that Australian National University suffered from a massive hack, seeing 19 years of data stolen made headlines earlier this week. According to the ABC names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers,...
Five Banks Now Let Users Verify Their Identities Using a Blockchain App

Five Banks Now Let Users Verify Their Identities Using a Blockchain App

By Yogita Khatri Five Canadian banks now let customers digitally verify their identities in a “privacy-enhanced and secure way” using blockchain technology. For the effort, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CBIC), Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Scotiabank,...
Bundesbank Chief Warns on Risks of Central Bank Digital Currencies

Bundesbank chief warns on risks of central bank digital currencies

By Benedict Alibasa The head of Germany’s central bank has said central bank digital currencies could destabilize financial systems and worsen bank runs. In a speech at the opening of the Bundesbank Symposium in Frankfurt, Germany, on May...
Mastercard Open Banking Solutions Support Innovation, Collaboration Across Europe

Mastercard Open Banking Solutions Support Innovation, Collaboration Across Europe

  Amsterdam, 4 June Mastercard today unveiled its new suite of Open Banking Solutions™, market-leading applications and services to underpin, enable and safeguard greater choice of financial services across Europe. The four solutions, designed to...
Artificial Intelligence Innovation Steered By U.S. and China

Artificial intelligence innovation steered by U.S. and China

  Artificial intelligence has started — slowly — to make its presence felt in payments and commerce, including in fraud prevention, via early deployments of the technology and cutting-edge AI algorithms. And with those deployments comes increasing...
ECB Official Lauds Central Bank Digital Currency, Disregards Bitcoin

ECB Official Lauds Central Bank Digital Currency, Disregards Bitcoin

By Basil Kimathi · The Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania has stated that the central bank digital currencies are new, more efficient, and are offered from central banks across the globe. He spoke about...
Global Business Research Symposium

Global Business Research Symposium

Valencia, 3 de junio de 2019 La economía mundial está en completa ebullición: prohibiciones, aranceles, nuevos competidores, nuevos consumidores, etc. Parece que estamos viviendo una fase histórica en la cual ésta no se escribe con...
Three of Ireland’s ‘Big Four’ Banks Using Blockchain to Verify Staff Credentials

Three of Ireland’s ‘Big Four’ Banks Using Blockchain to Verify Staff Credentials

Yogita Khatri Three of Ireland’s “Big Four” banks are using blockchain tech to verify employees’ credentials. The Bank of Ireland, AIB and Ulster Bank are using a blockchain solution from Deloitte for the pilot initiative, news outlet...
How AI and big data will transform banking in 2019

How AI and big data will transform banking in 2019

By Daniel Gutierrez Did you know that artificial intelligence and machine learning could detect that it wasn’t really you who just swiped your card? That’s right, systems are being developed to flag transactions that seem...
NBB joins National Fintech Talent programme

NBB joins National Fintech Talent programme to support mentorship and growth within Bahrain´s fintech...

  National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) today announced its participation in Bahrain Fintech Bay’s National Fintech Talent Program (FTP) in line with the Bank’s ongoing commitment to digital advancement and human capital development – core...