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A Test Case for Digital Leap-Frogging: What the Financial Inclusion Community Can Learn from Vietnam
With its rapid economic expansion, large unbanked population, high mobile penetration and progressive regulations, Vietnam has the potential to leap-frog over brick-and-mortar banking and arrive directly at the forefront of digital finance. Krishna Thacker of MetLife Foundation in Asia profiles an emerging innovator in the country's mobile payments space, and explores lessons learned in driving the uptake of digital financial services.
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- Finance, Technology
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World Economic Forum leads creation of fintech cyber security consortium
The World Economic Forum has led the creation of an industry consortium focused on improving the cybersecurity of financial technology companies, as collaboration between fintechs and financial institutions grows.
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- Finance
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- cybersecurity, fintech
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Press release: World Tokenomic Forum Launches a Revolutionary Social Enterprise Venture Fund for Blockchain Related Technologies
World Tokenomic Forum is innovating the social enterprise venture fund model with its Sandcastle Social Enterprise Fund focused on early stage, protocol and decentralized application investments for cybersecurity, infrastructure, identity, payments, and social impact companies.
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- Technology
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Five African tech trends to look out for in 2018
The BBC's Clare Spencer picks five African tech trends to look out for in 2018.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Using Malware, Hackers Steal Millions From Banks
Putting in place a sophisticated digital racket, hackers were able to steal millions of dollars from up to 100 banks in what the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab is calling "the most successful criminal cyber campaign we have ever seen."
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- Technology
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- cybersecurity
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The Rise of the Young Social Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is about solving a problem, not starting a company. While this isn't a new idea, today's young entrepreneurs have the advantage of the Internet, which has collapsed time and distance barriers. This means problems solved locally can have immediate impacts globally—and that's good for both people and business. A new generation of entrepreneurs is creating a new generation of technologies that are, quite literally, changing the world overnight.
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- Uncategorized
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- cybersecurity
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