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2018 will be the year for cryptocurrency in UAE

It’s interesting how Bitcoin has risen in market value and stature. It has recently hit the $19,o00 mark, and is currently trading in futures. Remarkable. As predicted with the below article, 2018 will be the year of crypto in the UAE and the world at large. Read on. Has the UAE entered the cryptocurrency market…
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How Fintech and Payments Innovations Will Disrupt Global Ecommerce

The global payments landscape has significantly evolved over the past decade. The rapid rise and equally rapid evolution of online and mobile commerce has given rise to a wave of new payment methods. E-wallets, in-app purchasing, and peer-to-peer payments are all products of consumers’ increasing comfort with digital commerce. In many developed markets, older payment…
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Blockchain: Predictions for 2018

2017 was a year of interesting developments in the blockchain area. Not all happened as was expected. Many, including me, predicted 2017 to be the year that blockchain would move from proof-of-concepts into real world production. Yes, we did see some great successes here, like IBM, R3CEV, … But the number of real world applications…
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Technologies that will dominate 2018

Technology has made a pivotal impact on businesses and how they are run today. Starting from the business language, to how we deal with our clients, everything has changed so much that it makes one wonder what will we do without these cutting-edge technologies, especially when we are living in an extremely competitive environment. If…
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20 of Europe’s hottest fintech start-ups to watch in 2018

Who are the fintech start-ups in Europe worth banking on in the year ahead? Europe is in the grip of a fintech revolution and 2018 is set to be a pivotal year, with seismic developments ranging from Brexit ructions to the onset of GDPR, the implementation of PSD2 and the ongoing evolution of blockchain-based services.…
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The Top 1000 banks in the world

I’ve written a column for The Banker magazine for the last 15 years and, during that time, have collected their special July edition each year.  Every July The Banker publishes their analysis of the Top 1000 banks in the world.  In the 1990s, the top 10 were mainly Japanese; in the 2000s, American; and today, Chinese.  This…
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Fintech could be bigger than ATMs, PayPal, and Bitcoin combined

Fintech broke onto the scene as a disruptive force following the 2008 crisis, but the industry’s influence on the broader financial services system is changing. The fintech industry no longer stands clearly apart from financial services proper, and is increasingly growing embedded in mainstream finance. We’re now seeing the initial stages of this transformation. For instance, funding…
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How PSD2 is set to change banking up as we know it …

“Banking is necessary. Banks are not.” Yep. Bill Gates said it. Back in 1994. And 28 years later, it’s it’s set to become reality. From the 1st January 2018, banking will no longer be the exclusive domain of banking institutions because PSD2 is going to drastically alter the way in which we bank. The biggest…
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Digital Trade Chain: 7 Banks Could Go Live With Blockchain in 2017

Seven major European banks are partnering on a new blockchain-based trade finance platform, with a tentative plan to launch sometime in the second half of 2017. Dubbed Digital Trade Chain (DTC), the initiative grew out of an earlier proof-of-concept spearheaded by Belgium-based bank KBC and first unveiled in July of last year. Those backing the…
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