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Deep Dive: Striking A Balance In Digital ID Security

PYMNTS

Digital identification technology continues to advance, bringing both benefits and drawbacks. Microsoft is delving into the technology with its recently announced ION project, a blockchain-based digital identity system developed in collaboration with the Decentralized Identity Foundation.

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Yahoo! Is! For! Sale!: Why Banks Should Care

Celent Banking

The announcement in December came on the heels of a nearly 12-month project aimed at spinning its 15% interest (worth $30 billion) in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, to its shareholders, a transaction that has been abandoned over tax concerns. By spinning out the Alibaba stake to Yahoo!’s It was Google that improved on Yahoo!’s

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. When the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 passed, the top capital gains tax rate was lowered, providing yet another incentive for equity speculators to pour money into the fledgling internet industry.

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The Connected Economy: It’s About Time

PYMNTS

The 2020s will be defined by the innovators who understand that time is a currency people truly value — and they will use technology and connected devices to maximize each unit of time. Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1789 that the only certainty in life was death and taxes. movies they saw in 2002. Maybe even spendable.

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House of Blockchain

Tomorrow's Transactions

As I had contributed to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) work on shared ledger technologies (SLTs), I had been invited to the House of Lords for a slap-up full English and a discussion on the topic with assembled Lords and Commons. Sir Mark had published a report on the technology earlier in the year. .

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

At the same time, financial upstarts have built technologies that could eventually cut into the relationship-driven work that investment banks are used to doing. But there’s no question that the way these institutions function has shifted, pushed along especially by the financial crisis and technology trends. Table of contents.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

in 2005, the thinking was that enhanced communications technology would help buyers and sellers better connect. The companies served different user bases: Nextel was more of a business brand, with customers often drawn to its signature walkie-talkie technology. 32) in August of 2002. Toshiba was forced to write off $6.3B

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