ANZ employs digital assistant ‘Jamie’ to help customers
ANZ Bank customers will be able to get help from a digital assistant starting from today.
Called Jamie, she has brown hair and brown eyes, and despite wearing a trainee badge, she is an expert...
Online Cryptocurrency Payments Could Become Mainstream in a Decade
By Alan Wass
When we talk about online cryptocurrency payments becoming mainstream, it is important that we do not get too ahead of ourselves. Many things have to change in the marketplace to facilitate this...
An abundance of tourists. A world of convenience
By Andrew Barnes, freelance journalist, Photo credit: Brandon Roberts.
It’s a typically sweltering summer’s day in Phnom Penh. The July sun is beating down mercilessly on Cambodia’s bustling capital city but on the horizon, towering...
Fintech careers: India, world in dire need of a talent pool
By Vikram Pandya
In the last couple of years, due to automation and structural changes in business and technology, we have witnessed more than two million job cuts across the globe.
However, unlike other sectors, the financial...
One Of The World’s Largest Banks Seeking Blockchain Patent
By Nathan Graham
A patent application from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) outlining a blockchain platform intended to improve financial asset exchangehas been published.
The institution is one of the world's largest in terms of assets. The...
SAP: Saudi Arabia Ranks as Top Digital Banking Market in Middle East and North...
As Saudi banks digitally transform, the Kingdom ranks as the top digital banking market in the Middle East and North Africa, with more than three-quarters of banking customers using online or mobile apps, industry...
Bank branches push digital adoption
FNB branches are playing a pivotal role in introducing customers to digital banking channels.
The bank reveals that, over the last year, its branches recorded the highest number of customers that migrated to the FNB...
How Social Media Is Influencing The World Of Sports?
The adoption of social media in the sports world has had a huge impact on the industry over the past 10 years. How clubs, sports stars, and fans interact with each other has seriously...
REGULATING global crypto-markets will push banks and financial institutions out of their ‘comfort zone’...
Key to the boom in popularity of crypto finance has been decentralisation and a move away from hard and fast legislation. But specialist Luka Gubo is pushing for unified regulation to remove barriers to trade...
Banks still in testing mode on blockchain: JP Nicols
By Ben Ng
In an article carried Tuesday, we outlined the views of JP Nicols, a prominent bank innovation consultation expert, on the future of banking industry in China and Hong Kong.
Now, in the second part of...
