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Five At Five: Apple Faces New Fine Rule In Australia

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14) a new law that would call on technology companies, including Apple , to provide access to encrypted data if they receive a warrant. Capital market tech firm Axoni has become a leader in blockchain technology via partnerships with investment banks, asset managers and market infrastructure companies.

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Investors Haven’t Forgotten About Alternative SMB Finance

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By now, the alternative lending market is hardly new, and investor appetite for startups in the space seems to have waned. This week, alternative finance companies raised more than $77 million in venture capital funding, accounting for nearly 70 percent of total funds raised by B2B FinTech startups this week.

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Mobile Order-Ahead Delivered The Goods In 2019

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Tons of capital was raised and spent on new systems and processes. Others are getting into the act, and quickly too, including New York City-based mobile store Bandit, various pop-ups and so-called “phantom kitchens” without seating from quick-service restaurants (QSRs) including Wendy’s and Chick-Fil-A.

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Where is the Financial Services Industry in the digital transformation journey?

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Rob Palacios, EVP and Director of TCB Labs at Texas Capital Bank, sat down with Yousef Hashimi from IBM at Money2020 to discuss the banks’ work around AI and their use of the IBM Garage. There was a lot of buzz at the event on fighting fraud faster as criminals have become more adept at fraud schemes in record time.

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London B2B FinTechs Win Big As Market Preps For Disruption

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More than $30 million in venture capital stuck around the U.K., This week the company announced two new solutions as well as $6.5 million in Series A investment funding led by Propel Venture Partners; Freestyle Capital, Compound, Upside Partnership and Transmedia Capital also participated. Enterprise Security.

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Helping Investors Avoid The Lending Club Trap

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Online lending as a business model has taken some lumps over the last several months, with Lending Club (and investors) only the most visible casualty of alleged fraud. One of the big challenges, said Moore, is for the institutional investor to be able to validate the integrity of the loan data itself. . not being directly underwritten). .

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Kasisto’s KAI Banking Helps DBS Bank Bring Its ‘Live More, Bank Less’ Philosophy To Three Major Markets

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Bank of America has Erica (or will soon), JPMorgan Chase has COIN and Capital One has Eno. On the other side of the planet, DBS Bank (one of the largest banks in Asia) is offering the same functionality to three new markets as it rolls out its all-mobile banking platform digibank in India, Singapore and Indonesia.

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