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Dozens, the latest digital banking offering, aims to revolutionise retail banking in favour of the customer, by routing returns back to depositors and avoiding most unsecured consumer lending. Is this an unworkable goal, or is founder Aritra Chakravarty on to something? -
The European Central Bank (ECB) is looking to set up its own platform in collaboration with the Sociedad de Gestión de Activos procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (Sarreb) in order to shift European non-performing loans (NPLs).
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A few years ago, artificial intelligence was only the hipster’s choice for ‘most important tech innovation in finance’. But AI is fast supplanting blockchain as The Next Big Thing in capital markets. There is a theory that cool things are no longer cool once finance types start to like them. So, in that spirit here’s ByteMe’s guide to the perils of an AI dystopia.
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Technology M&A will continue to power corporate finance activity in 2019 but, as deals increasingly cross sectors, banks are having to re-tool their coverage and break up internal silos, writes David Rothnie.
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This week, a major cryptocurrency suffered an attack that strikes at the very heart of what makes cryptocurrencies valuable. And yet, for some reason, holders (or HODLers in the parlance of those in the know) didn't seem to mind. This raises the question: if a hack happens in the forest and no one cares, did it really happen?
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The cryptocurrency market, fresh from a hellish year in which 83% of its $800bn market cap went up in smoke, is facing a new, and altogether more serious threat: the 51% attack.
