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Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

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Customer experience and security But as in most industries, customer expectations and security challenges continue to grow along with technological advances. Banks continue investing in technologies that make the customer experience seamless, including mobile apps and peer-to-peer payments. Security and privacy.

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Why fintechs are buying up legacy financial services companies

TechCrunch

Over just the last year or so, we’ve seen: In February 2020, LendingClub announced plans to acquire Radius Bank in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $185 million. million in a deal that was designed to accelerate its acquisition of a national bank charter.

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FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked

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Much of the world’s attention around blockchain is on the highs and lows of cryptocurrency values. Startups like FlexID remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including offering trusted records of identities without the need for a centralized authority. million in 2016.

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How African CIOs can serve as agents of adoption for digital currencies

CIO

The continent has not yet laid the foundations of the digital economy to impact the perception of digital money,” says Armand Ngueti, a technical specialist in computer science and president of the Blockchain Association of Cameroon (BAC), launched by the Cameroonian government. People still equate IT with bureaucrats.

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Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

TechCrunch

Oftentimes these events are filled with traditional seed-stage tech companies based in Silicon Valley. About three-fourths of the teams are focusing on NFTs, infrastructure or decentralized finance (DeFi), while the majority of the teams are building on layer-1 blockchains Ethereum, Polygon and Solana. Stage: Seed round.

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Concept to Cost: A Complete Guide to Blockchain Implementation

Openxcell

What is Blockchain technology? Blockchain Technology is a modern database infrastructure that revolutionizes information sharing amongst the network of participants. Due to this, Blockchain technology emerged as a potent immutable ledger for tracking orders, accounts, payments, and other transactions.

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Blockchain in Education: Use Cases, Challenges, and Examples

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The education sector is undergoing rapid changes due to the internet and digital learning. One of the newest introductions to the field is blockchain technology. Cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and Bitcoin have often been associated with blockchain technology. Why blockchain in education?