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alexbelov

Bank layoffs are coming due to Uberisation of the industry - Business Insider - 2 views

  • Banks are quickly approaching their "automation tipping point," and they could soon reduce headcount by as much as 30%.
  • "Banks' Uber moment will mean a disintermediation of bank branches rather than the banks themselves
  • it will mean the shift to mobile distribution being the main channel of interaction between customers and the bank
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  • The job cuts Citi is describing would add up to more than 1.8 million job losses from current levels in the banking sector in the US and Europe over the next 10 years.
  • As more transactions are automated and done on a mobile phone, we believe there will be a rebalancing of staff from transaction-based roles to advisory-based roles
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    Clients do transactions using their mobile phones now which allows banks to massively reduce their staff.
Maria Gurova

Developed world plays waiting game with mobile payments - FT.com - 0 views

  • High-profile mobile money launches by Apple and Samsung may have caught the headlines
  • But it is the developments in payments systems in supposedly less developed nations in Africa and Asia that point the way to the probable future for wider mobile banking.
  • the reality remains that the mobile phone as a means of payment remains relatively niche even in developed markets.
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  • But analysts anticipate a further shift as more financial services and greater interactivity are added, which is when mobile payments will become mobile banking.
  • In the UK, for example, just 1 per cent
  • the mobile phone is taking on extra roles as a place to keep money safe and move it around, as well as to acquire other financial services from trusted providers.
  • services are quickly expanding to include loan disbursement, bill payment and micro insurance.
  • In the next few years mobile banking apps will become the predominant means to access all routine banking services, from applying for a loan or overdraft increase to letting the bank know you are moving house
  • So while we are working closely with digital giants such as Apple, Samsung and Google to roll out their payment services, we’re also working with the banks to create their own payment functionality embedded within their existing hugely popular banking apps
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    The article is about a shifting consumer behaviour in mobile payments and that it's not driven by developed economies with the established finical systems but rather by the emerging regions, like Africa and Asia 
evgeny lavrov

http://www.wired.com/partners/bnymellon/futureofmoney/ - 0 views

  • M-Pesa’s success has been phenomenal. Recent statistics show that fully one-quarter of the Kenyan economy flows through M-Pesa.
  • Other countries are taking a crack at a similar mobile digital currency. Vodacom
  • has launched M-Pesa in other African nations, as well as India and parts of Eastern Europe. In Latin America, Ecuador recently announced it would launch a nationwide digital currency, residing largely on people’s smartphones
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  • digital currency will bring the same safety and ease of monetary transfer that the M-Pesa has to Kenyans to the roughly 40% of Ecuadoreans who don’t have access to a bank account. Plus, it offers Ecuadoreans the opportunity to start saving
  • What is increasingly evident is that the traditional role of banks is being reimagined by non-banking software and hardware companies
  • Bitcoin will increasingly enter the mainstream and challenge the traditional rails of finance along which money has moved.
  • Goods of all kinds can reach customers in places that just didn’t make financial sense in the past.
  • This leads to the increased competition for all kinds of things, especially for information-based products and services that the United States leans on for much of its economy. Digital currencies, Bitcoin in particular, will lower economic barriers.
  • It might be different kinds of loans, payroll and other small business services and specialized accounts that serve specific needs and populations.
Irina Marchenko

G20's Young Entrepreneurs are Increasingly Interested in Digital Technologies but not H... - 0 views

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    The recommendations summarized in a final Summit communique primarily focus on the following: *Need to develop digital infrastructure. Young entrepreneurs are the most active group in terms of both starting up businesses and using the latest digital technology to help run the business and optimize business processes; *Importance of developing educational programs for entrepreneurs, advancing the entrepreneurial culture, and streamlining government funding for "green" technology studies; *Need to ease the tax burden in the fields of scientific-technical programs and social entrepreneurship, namely the taxes imposed on employers and employee income tax; *Access to funding for startups and emerging companies. Ensuring funding on easy terms, changing banking requirements, developing rules for new forms of funding, including cross border online platforms, investors' and entrepreneurs' networks.
Oleg Batluk

MasterCard и Visa заменят пин-коды на селфи и интернет вещей | Хайтек - 1 views

  • сервис подтверждения платежей с помощью селфи в 15 странах
  • MasterCard Identity Check
  • биометрические данные — отпечаток пальца и распознавание черт лица.
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  • Visa Ready
  • Первая демо-программа следит за уровнем бензина и подсказывает водителю, где находится ближайшая заправка
  • На заправке приложение рассчитывает стоимость бензина и предлагает оплатить его, не выходя из машины
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    Entertainment and banking are merging to widen internet of things experience
Anton Vorykhalov

Cheapest Labor Since Tsars Ruled Russia a Draw for Samsung, Ikea - Bloomberg - 0 views

  • Cheapest Labor Since Tsars Ruled Russia a Draw for Samsung, Ikea
  • A combination of the country’s worst currency crisis since 1998 and an unprecedented slide in real wages for most of the past two years has resulted in salaries that have become “broadly competitive” with China’s for the first time since the tsarist era ended a century ago, according to Renaissance Capital.
  • “It won’t be an exaggeration to say that Russia may become the region’s factory,” said Yaroslav Lissovolik, chief economist at the Eurasian Development Bank. “The goal of our manufacturers in Russia is to create alliances with foreign companies, to become part of regional and global chains of added value and thus to increase not only the country’s competitive potential, but also its export potential.”
Maria Gurova

8 Unexpected Ways Technology Will Change The World By 2020 | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 3 views

  • NEW EDUCATION MODELS
  • education will become an "on-demand service" where people "pull down a module of learning" when they need it.
  • "School kids will learn from short bite-sized modules, and gamification practices will be incorporated in schools
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  • Making will go mainstream
  • not just with the creative class, but with people who would never consider themselves to be traditionally 'creative'--opening up a whole population of pragmatists who now make extremely useful 'artwork'
  • In the past, innovative products flowed from rich countries to poor countries. By 2020, the pipeline may start flipping
  • Africa embraces technology to solve health and education challenges, it may start exporting its models elsewhere
  • By 2020, mobile money will have spread throughout Africa, enabling some of the 2 billion people without access to financial services to come into the formal system.
  • dark imaginings: The end of privacy and the continued rise of surveillance. The personalization of everything and the end of serendipity. Dependence on devices. Loss of human autonomy in the face of artificial intelligence.
  • Machines
  • running our lives to a very large degree...
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    Many of things we've already discussed
alexbelov

Future of messaging apps - 3 views

  • users of the messaging app WeChat can order food, call a taxi, check their bank balance and even shop flash sales of limited-edition goods. And for the user, the experience is just like texting a friend.
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    Messengers are becoming a platform for B2C communication offering a new retail experience and allowing to order goods, get special offers or discounts, check or top up balance, book tickets, or schedule activities. Businesses start using AI and language processing technologies to automate communication with their customers.
al_semenchenko

Банки будут принимать решения по кредитам исходя из фото заемщиков в соцсетях... - 0 views

  • Соответствующий сервис Social Attributes запустило Национальное бюро кредитных историй (НБКИ) совместно с IT-компанией Double Data.
  • Первый опыт использования системы, по информации издания, показал, что подписка заемщика на группы о сетевом маркетинге, быстрых кредитах или антиколлекторах увеличивает риск невыплаты кредита в 2-4 раза. При этом позитивные действия пользователя, например, публикация фотографий о путешествиях, наоборот, снижают риски для кредитора.
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