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How Collectives Aim To Make Cities Into Blockchain Centers

PYMNTS

Blockchain technology is taking hold in the Southwest, with the help of organizations encouraging development in the space. Approximately 140 firms that are involved in blockchain technology and crypto assets have a presence in Austin, Harris said. The city is also home to platforms such as NEM, Steem, Wanchain, DigiByte and Decred.

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5G, Biometrics Lead The Way At Mobile World Congress

PYMNTS

Indeed, new evidence recently emerged about the deployment of the latest generation of mobile technology – one that promises to bring significant changes to retail and payments thanks to bandwidth expansion and faster processing, along with new challenges and questions as early 5G case studies loom. cities by the end of 2019.

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Building Bridges For Chinese Consumers To U.S. Commerce

PYMNTS

Through their new partnership with secure commerce technology provider Freedom Pay, Alipay gives users newer and more expansive access to merchants that use Freedom Pay’s services in North America – including vendors at the airports, but also merchants at entertainment venues, resorts, sports arenas, travel plazas and universities.

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Pindrop’s Solutions Fight Call Center And Voice Fraud

PYMNTS

But what’s left out of this picture, said David Dewey, director of research at Pindrop Security , is the element of voice. Founded in 2011, Pindrop’s security solution was built to protect banks and other financial institutions from call center and voice fraud. They let me right in,” Dewey said. at Georgia Tech.

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Bankers: Is your strategy the same as your competitor?

Jeff For Banks

It is annual report season, meaning publicly traded financial institutions are finalizing their 2013 numbers and submitting their 10k''s to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We are primarily a secured lender, with our greatest concentration of loans in Texas. In preparation for meetings, I frequently read 10k''s.

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Top 63 Online Digital Banks for U.S. Consumers (Nov 2023)

Fintech Labs Insights

The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. And from the very beginning, there have been pure-play digital banking startups. Elon Musk’s second startup, X.com (now PayPal), launched in 1999. 2 $520 12 Acorns 613 2012 LA 2,170,000 2.3

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33 Ways Drones Will Impact Society: From Fighting War to Forecasting Weather, UAVs Change Everything

CB Insights

Drone technology has been used by defense organizations and tech-savvy consumers for quite some time. However, the benefits of this technology extends well beyond just these sectors. And as autonomy and collision-avoidance technologies improve, so too will drones’ ability to perform increasingly complex tasks.