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financial services

Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies.

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Sub-Saharan Africa Driving Mobile Money Market
Sub-Saharan Africa Driving Mobile Money Market
July 13, 2017  |  International

More than half the world’s mobile money deployments are coming from a perhaps unexpected source: Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in a way, that balance makes sense....

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How Faster Payments Collaboration Breeds Financial Services Competition
How Faster Payments Collaboration Breeds Financial Services Competition
July 10, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Accelerated payments initiatives like the U.K.’s Faster Payments Scheme (FPS) are only valuable when financial institutions and other players can actually access the service. That’s...

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Chain CEO On Why B2B Payments Needs Blockchain
Chain CEO On Why B2B Payments Needs Blockchain
June 30, 2017  |  Blockchain

The blockchain has a bit of an identity crisis. Everyone who is anyone in financial services knows what it is, and there is broad consensus...

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RegTech And AI Tackle The Maddening Hurdle Of Conflicting Financial Policies
RegTech And AI Tackle The Maddening Hurdle Of Conflicting Financial Policies
June 29, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Regulation has historically been a challenge for the financial services space, but considering today’s fast pace of change in both financial services innovation and regulation,...

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NTechLab’s FindFace Facial Recognition Technology Has Applications In Retail, Public Safety
NTechLab’s FindFace Facial Recognition Technology Has Applications In Retail, Public Safety
June 20, 2017  |  Safety and Security

FindFace started as a futuristic social technology for identifying strangers by scanning their faces with a smartphone camera. Two years later, the facial recognition technology is...

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Meet Finastra, Financial Services FinTech Giant Formed By Misys, D+H Merger
Meet Finastra, Financial Services FinTech Giant Formed By Misys, D+H Merger
June 16, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Months after financial services software company Misys canceled its IPO and after Vista Equity Partners, which already owns Misys, agreed to acquire D+H, Vista Equity Partners...

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Blockchain Tracker: Is Retail Ready For Implementation Yet?
Blockchain Tracker: Is Retail Ready For Implementation Yet?
June 15, 2017  |  Blockchain

Blockchain technology may be used widely in the financial services industry, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will see a smooth transition into the retail...

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Financial Services Innovation/Inertia Tug of War
Financial Services Innovation/Inertia Tug of War
June 09, 2017  |  Fintech Investments

As traditional financial services firms find themselves challenged by FinTech and other upstarts, the choice, when it comes to products, services and even culture, is...

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Data Enablers: SigOpt’s Machine Learning Tools Help Businesses Optimize Operations
Data Enablers: SigOpt’s Machine Learning Tools Help Businesses Optimize Operations
June 06, 2017  |  Innovation

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. SigOpt now...

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