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Standard Chartered Partners With Microsoft to Become a “Cloud-First Bank”
Standard Chartered Bank and Microsoft announced a three-year strategic partnership to accelerate the bank’s digital transformation through a cloud-first strategy. They said this partnership marks a significant milestone for Standard Chartered in making its vision for virtual banking, next-generation payments,
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Finastra and Microsoft Enters in Global Partnership in Digital Push for Financial Services
Finastra and Microsoft today announced a strategic, multiyear cloud agreement to help accelerate the digital transformation of financial services. They said this move marks a commitment and builds on the 3,000 banks and financial institutions already supported by both companies
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Louis Vuitton Launched a Blockchain for Luxury Goods in Ongoing Fight Against Counterfeits
ConsenSys and Microsoft just announced AURA, a blockchain platform that aims to offer the luxury industry with product tracking and tracing services. AURA is based on the Ethereum blockchain and Microsoft Azure, in partnership with the LVMH Group, which owns
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Artificial Intelligence to Nearly Double the Rate of Innovation in Singapore by 2021
By 2021, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will allow the rate of innovation and employee productivity improvements in Singapore to nearly double according to business leaders in Singapore. The study from Microsoft and IDC Asia/Pacific, Future Ready Business: Assessing Asia Pacific’s Growth
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UNIBRIGHT is the Bridge over Troubled Waters…
A little more than 3 months after their successful ICO, the German company Unibright is making headlines with high potential partnerships s and first customers for real use cases. Being a team of developers with 20+ years of experience in
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AfDB Partners with Microsoft & Facebook to Tackle Unemployment
The African Development Bank, together with partners – The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft, and Facebook –launched the Coding for Employment Program at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. By training youth in demand-driven Information and Communications Technology (ICT) curriculum and
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How Banking Institutions Can Catch Up On The Digital Curve With Microsoft
Microsoft wants to make traditional banking a thing of the past with its customizable financial services platform. Asia Pacific is poised to become the most connected market by 2021, and business processes in the region are being digitalized at an
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EY, Guardtime and Industry Participants Launch the World’s First Marine Insurance Blockchain Platform
EY and Guardtime announce the world’s first blockchain platform for the marine insurance sector. The platform launches in collaboration with A.P. Møller-Maersk A/S, ACORD, Microsoft, MS Amlin, Willis Towers Watson and XL Catlin and after a 20-week proof of concept.
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KPMG and Microsoft Announce New “Blockchain Nodes”
KPMG International and Microsoft have announced the launch of joint Blockchain Nodes, which are designed to create and demonstrate use cases that apply blockchain technology to business propositions and processes. The first joint Blockchain Nodes are in Frankfurt and Singapore,
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15 Winners of The Asian Private Banker Technology Awards 2016: Singapore Fintech awarded as Most Promising Fintech Startup
The Asian Private Banker Technology Awards are awarded to the tech industry’s most innovative and practical companies. The Technology Awards Luncheon and Champagne Reception will be held in February 2017 and celebrates the end of another challenging and rewarding year
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