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The Blockchain battlefront: Technology, business, and regulation

CIO

The great regulatory bureaucracy has awakened to the significance of blockchain-enabled technology, led by the SEC. . Ripple created the XRP coin, designed for blockchain-based payments. Blockchain, Regulation He missed another area of notorious confusion: the law. The final traditional asset class to consider is securities.

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Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

CIO

Quick loan approvals, online applications, personalized lending options, and massive data breaches create pressure for banks to focus on customer experience and security to compete with more technically mature and agile competition. Source: “Innovation Digital Listening Research.” Conducted by Quadrant Strategies for Iron Mountain.

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Article: Solutions for Testing Blockchain: Private Blockchains, Permutations, and Shifting Left

InfoQ Culture Methods

Blockchain is an emerging software architecture that has the potential to be a big disruptor in the industry. With change however, comes the added risk of quality issues.

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If Only Yankee Stadium II Had Been Built With Blockchain

Perficient

Blockchain Is A Permanent Record In the last series of articles published by members of Perficient’s Digital Assets Team, we wrote about the improved visibility of blockchain-based supply chains assisting all supply chain transaction partners to share data through permission-based Blockchain solutions.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO

Finetuning for agility For Cathay, security is a key concern, but cybersecurity can be a roadblock to agility if not designed effectively, Nair points out. The cloud has helped us to be more scalable and agile.” Cathay is also an early innovator in making use of blockchain’s digital ledger technology.

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The post-quantum cryptography conundrum

CIO

Cryptocurrency and the blockchain Imagine a bad actor possessing a CRQC and downloading a blockchain. The elliptic curve cryptography used in blockchain is more susceptible to quantum computing attacks than RSA encryption used to protect sensitive data in motion such as credit card transactions. The good news? Why act now?

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Customer centricity: How Mashreq Bank is placing its customers at the forefront of its operations.

CIO

This includes using blockchain for safe and transparent transactions, artificial intelligence to create a more personal experience for our customers and making our mobile banking platform easy to use. Blockchain is really important for us, especially for safe transactions that cross borders.

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