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A Look at Machine Learning System Design
As ML applications are maturing over time and becoming an indispensable component of industries for making faster and accurate decisions for critical and high-value ...
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Digital payments, not cash, is now king in Asia’s payment ecosystem
The Covid-19 pandemic has upended lives and livelihoods in 2020, but it is also accelerating Asia’s transition to digital financial services. Notwithstanding border ...
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Global Stars: The most Innovative countries ranked by groups
Innovation can be instrumental to the success of economies, at macro and micro scales. While investment provides powerful fuel for innovation the relationship ...
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Top 5 Fintech Trends That Will Shape Financial Markets in 2021
2020 was not the greatest for many industries due to COVID-19. But interestingly, the likes of fintech reported rapid growth during the pandemic. In ...
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Good digital ID needs great data protection
The rapid digitalization of our world is creating enormous opportunities to use personal data to empower people and promote inclusive growth more broadly. The ...
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Why is digital remittance replacing traditional money transfer
Why is digital remittance replacing traditional money transfer? Well, during the pandemic the evidence is very clear – sending money the traditional way ...
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Could Decentralized Finance Apps Replace Banks and Lenders?
Until recently, cryptocurrency was viewed with derision by many in the traditional finance industry. But new advances are forcing a rethink. Bitcoin and ...
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How Kenya’s new personal data protection law could affect researchers
The risk of infringing on privacy is growing by the day given the increased frequency and granularity of the data being collected, and ...
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Why embedded finance is the next evolution in fintech
Apple card. Shopify merchant accounts. Amazon loans. Increasingly, non-banking players are branching out into banking services to improve user experiences and tap into new ...
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Digital transformations and AfCFTA as critical imperatives for the rebound of African economies
Technological transformations through digitization as well as the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) are considered as quite critical in supporting the fast ...