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Visions At the Gates of Pandemonium: Covid-19, Market Woes, FDR, Eloi, and Crumbling World Order

Are you still worrying whether or not we’re headed for a recession? Don’t. We’re there, and the long-term effects of this one are going to be seismic in scale. Your choices are to stop reading and go stock up on canned foods and toilet paper or join me in figuring out how to beat this thing so future generations don’t hate us as much as our childr...

/markets /covid-19

Riaz Mohammed

Riaz Mohammed CTO at DiffusionData

Technology Driving Invisible Payments

Payments are taking a backseat and becoming more and more invisible, leaving us more time to ensure value and enjoy the purchase. Innovation in payments is progressing to the next level, from fast or contactless payments to invisible payments and to allow for multimodal transactions. We already have such offerings in the market, for example, th

/payments /retail

Doug Gross

Doug Gross CEO at NGDATA

A 2020 perfect vision for the financial services sector

It’s been an exciting year in the banking sector. Along with innovation being pushed along by the industry, there has also been the added pressure of regulatory change, such as the introduction of 2FA this September. In the past few years, much has been made of the potential for technologies such as blockchain, IoT and cryptocurrencies to revoluti...

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The state of the global export market. Barriers and opportunities for local business going global

Global trade is an ever-shifting sea. The waves of growth go up and down, but one thing remains certain: both barriers and opportunities are always present. Global trade tensions have been rising since 2018, and with tariffs on some widespread goods having a comeback in the last couple of years, international export/import activities face some chal...

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Boosting your exports as a local business: overcoming trade barriers via technology

The modern business world is fast-paced. Which isn’t inherently bad, it means it’s dynamic and full of opportunities. But speed often leads companies to focus on instruments at the micro-level or simply favor only ultra-modern tools and paradigms. Slower-burning, more traditional considerations are often ignored or undervalued by local businesses, ...

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Transmeri, Demos, Real Time Economy Program,MyData

Finding inflation - or rather deflation - with real time data.

The Economist article also describes how policy makers and central banks often have to resort to outdated price data and how sudden important changes typically are in a global economy. So when they find the data the important trends may already have emigrated to the next big thing. As we have moved from soon mandatory e-Invoicing+e-Receipts to...

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Digital Payments - India embarking on another bold move..

Indian banking ecosystem has over 920 Million debit cards in circulation. That is almost 20 times as many active credit cards in the country. In spite of the great number of cards in circulation, our actual-usage of it is far lesser than desired. Sadly, each debit card gets used only 1.4 times (average) every month. Worse still, 7 out of 10 times,

/payments

Konrad Litwin

Konrad Litwin Global General Manager - Testing at Perforce Software

Customer satisfaction and mobile apps: why a new approach to testing and code quality is needed

2019 is a landmark year for the mobile industry: the introduction of foldable smartphones by firms including Huawei, LG and Samsung is one of the most significant developments that market sector has seen for years. As well as presenting design challenges for device manufacturers, it also means that any app running on foldable phones will need to s...

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Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

Public Speaking Jitters? No more!!

We attend many conferences, workshops, speeches, office workshops and professional events. In my experience, the professional events have a better cadre of speakers not because of the content or intelligence but because of their clarity of what they want to share. Professional speakers just by their sheer experience of doing it over time, underst

Ron Cogburn

Ron Cogburn CEO at Exela Technologies

Prepare For The Business Of Tomorrow, Today

"Fortune favors the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur This is a reprint from my recent Forbes Technology Council article. My experience in business process automation has given me firsthand exposure to the kind of job displacement that’s possible as new technologies emerge. As I (and others) have said, we’re in the midst of another indust...

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