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Distributed Ledgers Expected to be Most Prominent Financial Technology in 2019, Poll Finds

Bank Innovation

Distributed ledger technology will be crucial to innovation in digital banking this year, according to a poll conducted by Bank Innovation. For the December poll, Bank Innovation asked readers to name a technology, aside from the obvious - artificial intelligence, that would be most prominent in 2019.

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How Technology Impacts the Three Most Important Moments in Retail

Let's Talk Payments

In modern tech-influenced retail, there are only three moments that matter and all of them have been redefined by financial technology companies. While mobile has been steadily taking over the.

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BNY Mellon’s recent hires tasked with pursuing 3 key technology areas

Bank Innovation

BNY Mellon's three key financial technology executives added last month were given the directive to pursue investments and fintech partnerships in natural language processing, rule-based automation systems and robotic process automation (RPA), Bank Innovation has learned. The initiatives had previously not been disclosed.

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Generation Life launches lifetime annuity solution using GBST’s Wealth Management technology

Bobsguide

Generation Life CEO, Grant Hackett OAM , said: “Working together with the GBST team, we have been able to improve and expand our financial technology capabilities to allow us to build out an innovative solution for the retirement income market.

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Digital Currency Eyes Wholesale — Not Retail — Payments Down Under

PYMNTS

An idea that may get a splash of cold water is that the development of a digital fiat (at least, in Australia) would lead to a groundswell of payments at the retail point of sale — in other words, through a boost in use cases. What It Won’t Do. There are inherent risks, too.

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Mersch: ECB Will Focus On ‘Game Changer’ Retail CBDC

PYMNTS

Speaking at a virtual conference about the future of money, European Central Bank (ECB) executive board member Yves Mersch said a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a game-changer. “A However, a retail CBDC, accessible to all, would be a game-changer, so a retail CBDC is now our main focus.”. We have to be ready.

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UK Retail Banks Draft FinTech Alliance Guidelines

PYMNTS

banks and financial technology firms have worked together to create a set of guidelines to improve the relationship between FinTech startups and financial institutions (FIs). USD) a year into financial technology companies. has been a hotbed of FinTech startups.