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Blockchain Brings AML Into the Digital Age
Date: March 21, 2022
By Nish Kotecha, Chairman and Co-founder Finboot One trend to come out of the Covid-19 pandemic is accelerated digital transformation. More people are using online and mobile banking services. However, with this comes a downside – increased opportunities for fraudsters and evermore sophisticated scams. In turn, it is forcing financial institutions (FI) to up their...
How the DeFi World Has Changed for Retail Investors; We’re Just Getting Started in Our Financial Revolution!
Date: March 17, 2022
By Phil Blows, Co-founder and CEO of AQRU Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is continuing to show phenomenal growth since the boom in 2018. It provides the chance to connect communities and people from all over the globe, who within the traditional world of finance could never have accessed these opportunities before. Thanks to the blockchain –...
Facebook Became Meta – Are We All About to Jump in to the Metaverse?
Date: March 16, 2022
By Tim Hyde, Founder and Director of Social Media Marketing Agency, TWH Media On October 28, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a founder’s letter to outline the brand’s decision to change its name to Meta, suggesting this phase as being the beginning of the next chapter for the internet. He went on to say: “The metaverse...
Banking and Finance: Key Trends for 2022
Date: March 16, 2022
By Rohit Bhosale, digital banking specialist, Persistent This year is bearing witness to financial service providers adopting disruptive technologies to stay ahead and deliver value to customers. The pandemic lead to difficult circumstances for many organisations, with some making the headlines for the wrong reasons, and many struggling due to legacy systems. That said, others...
Will This Discourage Potential Investors?
Date: March 15, 2022
The authors are Rob Goodhew, director, Restructuring Advisory, Ben Boorer, associate managing director Business Intelligence and Investigations (BII) and Patrick Crumplin, director, Expert Services at Kroll Unregulated investments, many of which are high-risk, not only in the sense of the asset class but also potentially in terms of the underlying assets, and some of which...
From AI Hype Curves to NFT Bubbles; the Tech Questions That We May Just Answer This Year
Date: March 15, 2022
By Mike Loukides, Vice President of Emerging Tech at O’Reilly From AI hype curves to NFT bubbles, each year technology throws up a fresh set of trends that inspire debate and valuable discussion at one end of the spectrum and, at the other, headline-grabbing hype and hyperbole. Finding the answers is a matter of discernment,...