Regulation is quickly becoming a hot topic in the crypto-world. The unregulated, “Wild West” environment of the crypto market left investors wide…
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Sponsored post: The Next Stage Of The Crypto-Boom
Cryptocurrencies have officially returned to a full-blown-frenzy. Everyone is trying to get a piece of the crypto-pie. Corporate coins, government coins, and…
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Sponsored post: Ethereum Co-Founder Shares His Secrets As Bitcoin Plunges
The Bitcoin bubble seems to be bursting. The bottom has fallen out, just as it did in the DotCom bubble in 2000.…
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Sponsored post: How to Profit from the Recent Crypto Carnage
It’s no secret that crypto incubators and hedge funds get access to the best deals because of their inside connections… But, now,…
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Is re-regulation, not deregulation the answer to the financial world’s continuing woes?
The amount of financial regulation in the world continues to increase, creating an ever-growing burden on banks and other financial institutions. Banks…
Read MoreSwiss Re Leverages the Cloud to implement Enterprise Service Management
However, digital transformation proves to be one of the most complex undertakings that an organization can take, especially when it comes to something as important as customer facing services.…
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Why the future of payments may lie deep in the past
It’s that time of year when we take stock, review where we are and try to work out where we are going.…
Read MoreThe Gift Card Sector Comes of Age. Part 5 of 5: Disruption – The Slow Rise of Pre-paid Cards as a Financial Force
In this five part series, we have referred to gift cards and pre-paid cards interchangeably when traditionally there have been key differences…
Read MoreThe Gift Card Sector Comes of Age. Part 4 of 5: Sector Outlook – Gift Cards as Alternative Banking
In part 3 of this gift card series, we looked at the business drivers behind increased consumer adoption. In this post we…
Read MoreThe Gift Card Sector Comes of Age. Part 2 of 5: The Business, Social and Technology Trends Driving E-Gift Card Adoption, Innovation and Investment
In Part One of our look at the gift card sector, we provided an overview of the accelerated activity characterizing the sector…
Read MoreThe Gift Card Sector Comes of Age (Series). Part 1 of 5: Gift Cards are Cool Again (and Everyone Wants In)
The gift card sector is sizzling these days – more so than they’ve ever been. In the past four years, there has…
Read MoreBank POV: An Interview with U.S. Bank CIO Dominic Venturo
At the Plug and Play Retail and FinTech Expo on October 22nd, I had the opportunity to interview Dominic Venturo, CIO of…
Read MoreMillennial MBAs, NextGen FinTech & the Rise of the Micro Conference
Continuing the millennial and fintech discussion, I recently attended the country’s largest (business) student run digital media conference, the Berkeley HaaS School…
Read MoreFighting for Their Financial Freedom: Millennials Reinventing FinTech
One of the more enlightening sessions at this year’s Money 20/20 payment industry conference (9,000+ attendees) featured new findings from a Foundation Capital…
Read MoreOffice 2016 is Microsoft’s Post-Windows Breakthrough
Office 2016 has been reviewed in great detail by many market watchers, including Microsoft itself. But the release represents something much more…
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