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FinTech year in review: What we saw and where we’re going

Insights on Business

Banks are also innovators. They are investing in education, hackathons, and other initiatives to allow everyone in the enterprise to be an innovator. Innovation hubs are opening up around the world where partnerships between banks and these startups can gel, allowing them to take chances, make mistakes and move faster together.

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?? Generations X and Y’s “Culture of Convenience” driving financial institutions toward “mobile-first” omnichannel structures

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Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin run on a decentralized system of computers and use a secure “ blockchain ” ledger that is verified by the community through cryptography. Financial organizations are now developing payment solutions that allow businesses to accept bitcoins. These are some impressive gains however you look at it.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

Use the blockchain to manage identity, that’s one of the aims of DigiByte. DigiByte is looking at video games, and have created a “gaming wallet” based on blockchain tech. ^SR. We are now talking Blockchain – the hottest tech platform in years. We are now talking Blockchain – the hottest tech platform in years.

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

Auto-financing is ripe for innovation. Social media is a special challenge since social media was not created with compliance in mind. I can see how some other social media channels may be more prevalent and important in the U.S. 10:50 am Moonraft Innovation Labs – [link] – @moonraft.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). This is a leading bank in Russia, with a track record of fintech innovation. David Carr (Innovation Manager). The account has a tie into social media and sharing. This is the integration of mobile social media with trading.

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Fintech Trending: P2P, EMV, NFC, NLP… OMG

Fintech Labs Insights

Expect to see much, much more activity as financial institutions and fintech companies develop applications using Amazon’s Alexa and the new Google Assistant. Sibos 2016 Celebrates the Blockchain. The blockchain. 2016 was the first year that Sibos dedicated a track “exclusively to distributed ledger” technology.

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