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B2B FinTech On The Cusp Of Change

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SMEs want banks to offer bitcoin services , suggesting the cryptocurrency may not be such a failure after all. According to new research from Accenture, which published the results in its “SME Banking 2020: Changing the Conversation” report, small and medium-sized businesses are eager for more value-added services offered by their FIs.

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China and India lead global cashless growth

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This is among the key findings of the 2015 World Payments Report , published by Capgemini and Royal Bank of Scotland. Many nations around the world, both developed and emerging, have enjoyed strong growth in non-cash payments in the past few years, with Germany, the UK, Belgium and France all contributing to an increase of 5.1

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Finland and US lead the way for non-cash payments

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Citizens in Finland, the US and the Netherlands have been revealed as the most prolific users of non-cash payments such as credit and debit cards, according to a report that revealed which nations are leading the way with innovations in payments. Overall, 123 billion such payments were made in the nation in 2013.

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Mobile Banking: Questions About the Future

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Consulting firm KPMG is out with its Global Mobile Banking Report for 2015, and the numbers are amazing. In only four years, mobile banking will double to 1.8 That’s the basic understanding of technology: When something is working well, the best thing to do is to break it and find something that works better.

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War Games, Only Without the Fun

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As governments prep for cyber-attacks on banks, what’s the industry itself doing? The banking industry is at war. It’s early in 2015: A year from now, what are the brand names that will have been tarnished by a catastrophic hack that subsequently affected millions of their customers? It’s war, and it’s coming.

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Power Up Your IT Budget by Zero-ing in on Waste

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According to the 2015 Society for Information Management (SIM) IT Trends Study, which surveyed more than 1,000 senior IT leaders and CIOs, 63 percent of IT leaders say their IT budget is increasing. During Bob’s 25 years at Forsythe Technology, he has held a number of national management positions and earned numerous distinctions.

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The Next Big ‘Things’: It’s definitely time to prepare for the Internet of Things

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Around this time last year, we considered on this blog how big wearable technology would become in 2015. An electric blanket could download the latest report from the National Weather Service, map it to a sleeping individual’s body mass index, and constantly adjust the temperature to ensure maximum comfort levels all night. (It