Digital innovation: Cloud banking’s perfect storm
Digital is more than an opportunity for banks, it’s about to become a way of life.
Bank customers expect it, particularly Gen-Z. Born between the mid-1990s to early 2000s, it now accounts for more than...
Will WhatsApp Payments disrupt the digital payments market?
Digital payments in India, already witnessing unprecedented activity since the government's surprise demonetisation announcement in 2016, is likely to take a great leap forward with the entry of WhatsApp Payments.
"Digital payments currently aggregate...
SBI, other banks using Artificial Intelligence big time to improve efficiency, cut costs
By PTI
Indian banks, including state-owned SBI and Bank of Baroda, have started deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in a big way to improve efficiency, detect human behaviour and reduce operational costs.
State Bank of India, the...
Digital banking fraud is at an all-time high in South Africa
Columinate has published its latest annual digital banking report, revealing the state of the current digital banking landscape in South Africa – including worrying new scam trends.
According to the group’s report – which is...
Business schools put accent on fintech and entrepreneurship
By Chris Davis
Business schools are focusing on financial technology, or fintech, and entrepreneurship to help MBA students apply new skills. This comes as fintech innovations continue to disrupt long-standing financial structures and change the way...
The Movers And Shakers Of The Crypto World
Cryptocurrency has changed the way people make online transactions by decentralizing the process, making it more secure, and providing anonymity to the traders. However, when Satoshi Nakamoto came up with the concept of Bitcoin...
KPMG FINTECH REPORT: CANADA MAKING STRIDES TO BECOME GLOBAL LEADER IN AI
A new KPMG report looking at global FinTech activity in Q4 2017 found that AI is becoming a “pivotal technology” for FinTech innovation in Canada and the US.
“Canada continues to make strides to become...
Decoding the digital bank of the future for India
By Vinay Bagri, NiYO
The Indian banking industry has become a poster child having taken rapid strides over the past decade or so.
Once playing catch-up with leading global practices, the industry cut in half the...
Bank of China HK Uses Blockchain for 85% of Real Estate Valuations
by Anatol Antonovici,
Bank of China Hong Kong (BOCHK) is currently using blockchain technology for almost all its real estate appraisals in a broader push towards smart banking and fintech, bank officials said this week.
Rocky Cheng Chung-ngam, the...
THE FIRST ‘Bitcoin footballer’ in European top flight football could be purchased and playing...
In January, amateur Turkish side Harunustaspor claimed to be the first club to have paid for a player using cryptocurrency when they gave Omer Faruk Kıroglu 0.0524 in Bitcoin (roughly £330) and 2,500 Turkish.
While...
