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Facebook’s Libra, Uber Losses, Instant Deposits Top Week’s News

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Consumers have noticed the rising levels of fraud in digital banking, while fraudsters are relying on technologies such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). is putting more of its hopes into digital and mobile channels to grow revenue as well as its brand profile and make up for declining wholesale sales.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

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One use case is to use a bot, via text messaging, to help customers when they have potential credit card fraud. Houston Frost (SVP, Prepaid Products). He has personally advised more than 300 chief executives on marketing strategy, business development, mergers and acquisitions, company branding and public relations. Good job. ^WM.

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Will Children Point The Way Forward For Wearables?

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Children are the future — that’s just a biological fact, and the theme of an old Whitney Houston song. If those consumers stick to the brands they have known since childhood, that could pose a threat to Apple’s smartwatches, some observers say, as that product is made for adults, not kids. Wearable Questions.

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