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Jack Henry Annual Conference 2017 – Fintech, AI and Cyber Security

William Mills

The panelists, John Hans Morris, Managing Partner at Nyca Partners; David Sosna, co-founder and CEO of Personetics; and David Klein, co-founder and CEO of CommonBond, explained how banks have a fundamental advantage of cost and capital while fintechs are well positioned to leverage technology that builds customer engagement.

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Why initial coin offerings will not replace venture capital for startups

Bussman Advisory

There should be no doubt by now that initial coin offerings – token sale fundraisings by startups – have established themselves as new and very compelling forms of capital raising. This has begun to disrupt above all the traditional venture capital model by providing a compelling alternative fundraising mechanism for startups.

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Israel Approves New Digital Bank

PYMNTS

The digital bank is led by entrepreneurs Marius Nacht of cyber security company Check Point Software Technologies , and Amnon Shashua of autonomous driving developer Mobileye NV. It aims to serve as a bridge between Israeli startups and global customers and between traditional businesses and innovators.

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One City Plans To Run Entirely On Blockchain

PYMNTS

Currently,” Citi explained in its announcement, “banks have to set aside capital as they wait for collateral to be settled. This platform could potentially free up billions of dollars in capital if trade times can be reduced from days to seconds.”. The distributed ledger platform was developed by Baton Systems. “It

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Restaurants Rule, FireEye Flounders And Lending Club Is Back On The List

PYMNTS

Restaurants — the epicenter of payments innovation, it seems — were on the receiving end of a couple of new opportunities this week that could drive even more feet into them and help them grow. Clearly hacking is alive and well, and a sizzle for cyber security would be putting too fine a point on it. Here ya go… SIZZLE.

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Sacred Data for Sale, steal it while you can!

Lex Sokolin

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Two years back, Equifax lost 140 million identities, again from poor security practices. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least.

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Sacred Data for Sale, steal it while you can!

Lex Sokolin

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Two years back, Equifax lost 140 million identities, again from poor security practices. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least.

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