Chris Skinner

APRIL 16, 2017

Our love and belonging is … Not all US banks are against Open Banking I blogged recently about American banks beating up the regulators to stop account access via APIs. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, it’s our psychological needs – love, belonging, self-esteem. This is exactly where digital plays into our hearts.

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MARCH 12, 2020

The 36th biggest company in the world, SoftBank now ranks among the top 4 percent of the roughly 10,000 groups that engage in lobbying, the Center for Responsive Politics told the news outlet. The spadework was what allowed us to succeed ultimately in court.”. SoftBank spent $1.94 million on lobbying in 2019. million.

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MARCH 16, 2020

While the letter was polite and polished, the sentiment was clear regarding recommended or even mandatory store closings. Other retail news was decidedly more on the generous side. They have been amazing long-term partners for us, and we wanted to help them in their time of need.

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JUNE 23, 2019

BIS Economic Adviser and Head of Research Hyun Song Shin said, according to the report, “To make that coordination possible, I think there would need to be more of a concerted effort on the part of our political leaders to take that forward.”. As it stands, the BIS published a big tech in finance chapter in its annual report on Sunday.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

It’s a small skiing village in Switzerland that has become synonymous with the World Economic Forum’s signature event that, in better years, has drawn CEOs, celebrities and international political leaders to discuss the macroeconomic trends that will define global business.

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MARCH 15, 2019

It is in our interest to move forward as quickly as possible, but given the scope, PwC has told us that several months of work will be required before we see the first results,” Torres said. The report is a response to alleged finance-related crimes and high-profile money laundering cases in the region.

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Alex Jimenez

JULY 31, 2023

Image by ThankYouFantasyPictures from Pixabay Journalism has been heavily impacted by technology transformation happening all around us. The dataset used by OpenAI , ChatGPT’s maker, is “called the Common Crawl, which is a publicly available corpus of web pages, (that) includes billions of web pages.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

In order for us to provide a full suite of services, we need to operate as a bank” in Singapore, said Goh. In other news, Constellation Network , a San Francisco-based technology and blockchain company, announced that it has signed a working contract with the United States Air Force ( USAF ).

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

However, the social and political unease that accompanies large shocks with varying distributional inequities felt by workers in different occupations and with different skill levels is real.”. Currently, it seems as though chatbots are more friend than foe when it comes to their use in the retail arena.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Here’s the latest news for Big Tech’s Google , Amazon , Apple and Facebook , which are coming under increasing scrutiny from legislators and regulators the world over. Facebook Aims to Foster US Voting and Combat Election Misinformation. Facebook Might Ban Users From Posting News Articles in Australia. Regulation.

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MARCH 8, 2019

But news late this week shows that success is not inevitable with bike- and scooter-sharing, and that progress, no matter how defined, often does not move in straight lines. Some of this recent bike news came from China, and it might stand as the most notable. Another bit of bike- and scooter-sharing news also broke late Friday.

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APRIL 5, 2019

Fresh evidence of that came on Friday (April 5) from a new Wall Street Journal /NBC News poll. Yet at the same time, 70 percent of those consumers use social media at least once per day. As well, 82 percent describe social media as a “waste of time” and 57 percent claimed it “divides us.”. So what’s next?

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JUNE 15, 2020

And the world has changed so fast around us. Or people push back ideologically, believing that financial education is a political position meant to indoctrinate capitalism into the young. The tools that FinTechs put in people’s hands can only help strengthen someone’s financial position if the person knows how to use them.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Cash will likely outlive us all. Don’t even get us started on coins, all those pieces of metal just taking up space.) Earlier this month, news emerged that the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta has gone cashless. Cash is a survivor. Seemingly important patterns and precedents are being set. Cash Versus Cashless.

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MARCH 23, 2016

For reasons outside every involved party’s control, the potential purchase of Starwood Hotels & Resorts by a Chinese investment group has become a side issue in the political conversation. percent decline in earnings, as well as similar dips to its stock prices as a result of negative news coverage.

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APRIL 5, 2019

consumers say social media “spread unfair attacks and rumors,” with 55 percent say that it does more to spread “lies and falsehoods,” compared with 31 percent who said it does more to disseminate legitimate news. As well, 82 percent describe social media as a “waste of time” and 57 percent said it “divides us.”. So what’s next?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

It was a busy week for payments and commerce news, and the new PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything. The famous 17th-century political satirist and author Jonathan Swift wrote in 1745 that “vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In news that Alanis Morissette might find ironic — the rest of us might just stick with “interesting” — Amazon earlier this week announced its formal debut in Turkey , saying that its local eCommerce site features products in 15 different categories, including books, consumer electronics, sports, outdoor, tools and more. “The

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AUGUST 1, 2017

The latest research from the SMB Technology Adoption Index , for example, revealed news that just 13 percent of U.S. SMBs are willing to embrace innovative technologies beyond moderate use of new solutions. A quarter added that a lack of government support was keeping them from integrating new technologies.

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MAY 29, 2018

so they are punishing us,” Thiel said, according to reports. The proliferation of “fake news” has spooked officials in Europe — and around the world — and the continent has its own experience with Russian meddling in politics and elections.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The Fed has now given us eight rate increases totaling 2.00% since December, 2015. Politics is causing concern both here domestically with our upcoming mid-term elections in November and around the world with places like China and the Middle East. Even US growth is weaker than average. US household debt is at $13.3

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

There has been no shortage of food fads, dietary crazes and “restaurant of the future” concepts that have played out nationwide, most of which the brand has politely passed on. Our hosts are being trained via the new system on dine-in seating and to-go standards.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Apologies for the cliché (some of us miss baseball already), but that’s the story with Amazon and its split decision Tuesday (Nov. 13) on its new headquarters. and in Long Island City, a neighborhood in Queens, New York City. Build it and they will come — in this case, times two. Amazon Jobs.

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JUNE 5, 2018

Anyone who reads the news or follows science fiction knows how important AI is becoming to business, and how much change it will almost certainly bring to civilization. Granted, the same machine learning that can lead to more efficient and profitable financial services is being used in military technology.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

For innovators and payments professionals, the good news about the world is also identical to the bad news: It is a constantly changing environment. political administration, the uncertainties surrounding China and, more recently, Russia, to name but a few. The good news, according to Massaro?

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

CEO Tim Cook recently said: “Privacy to us is a human right. It’s a civil liberty, something that is unique to America, you know, this is like freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and privacy is right up there for us.” Facebook and Google are both hiring for positions related to politics and elections.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

“While polls show that 70 percent of New Yorkers support our plans and investment, a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City,” the post said.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 26, 2021

From Cornerstone’s viewpoint, we can share good news. And that brings us to the topic of mergers. After the continuous rinse and repeat of “book multiples,” “capital dilution payback,” and “seamless operational integration,” embedding ESG into a mature merger playbook will feel new and uncomfortable to many bank executives.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Since we would hate for anyone to go into the end of 2018 behind the eight ball, we decided to pay tribute to both a great bit and a great deal of news with our own top 10 list of the biggest news of summer 2018. I wouldn’t rule out that we take on a bigger deal if there’s a good fit for us,” said Schulman. Amazon’s Prime Day.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

The good news,” said ThinCats Founder and Chairman Kevin Caley in a statement, “is this tightening of lending from banks has encouraged us to become a nation of peer-to-peer lenders, giving everyday investors the opportunities to make healthy returns through the emergent alternative finance sector.”. In the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

With no Samsung-like news for bitcoin, prices are holding steady and are even a bit bullish. The bitcoin block reward was halved in July, which has changed the profitability of new miner entries and could impact the decentralization of bitcoin. US Government’s National Policy On Technology.

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JULY 19, 2018

The summer season is here, and while most of us tend to associate that with spending on sunblock, grilling meats and bathing suits, the reality, particularly for American parents, is that summer is also the time to start spending for the next school year. “At first glance, sales tax holidays seem like great policy.

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JUNE 30, 2016

It was an odd week for retail bankruptcies, if only because news of the Brexit decision to pull out of the European Union seemed to give more cause for concern over retail’s future on both sides of the Atlantic. But if they’re looking for that in the Chapter 11 Watch, they’ve come to the wrong place. Bankruptcies.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Digital is turning us into freelance workers whose worries about healthcare costs could finally help drive down those prices, and whose online purchasing seems increasingly likely to be influenced by Alibaba and other China-based operations. Oh, and artificial intelligence promises to be more important to human history than fire.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This year brought us: Mergers out the yin-yang. Heavy core conversions weighing us down. Why does this remind us of Petloversbank.com and BancBowie from the dot.com era 18 years ago? We will call it like we see it – this was pure divided political partisanship on both sides of the aisle. FinTech threats and distractions.

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JUNE 14, 2019

The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. The news had little effect on Amazon’s stock price, which ended the day of the announcement up 2.6

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Lex Sokolin

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

and perhaps its reminder of the fragility of political governance?—?has When the old world wobbles, the new one seems more safe by comparison. We think the PayPal news is interesting and promising, but still in early stages. But the part that stood out most to us is a defensive posture towards WeChat and Alipay.

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