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Science & Technology

Virtual Employees Hired in China for $14K a Year

While US companies are slow to adopt virtual employees trend, China’s cyberspace has doubled its “hiring” of digitised human beings

Finance & Economics

The Reason for Record Wage Raises Revealed

Wages for many US employees were up between 5.5% – 7.7% in November – the highest increase in 25 years of record-keeping

Science & Technology

New AI Service QuickVid Generates Videos with Voiceovers

A new AI-enabled web service QuickVid combines several generative systems to automatically create short-form YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat videos

Science & Technology

Microsoft to Acquire a Stake in London Stock Exchange

The symbiosis between the two giants of the tech industry and traditional markets will also involve the creation of new products able to “revolutionize the way financial advisers provide advice to their clients”

Finance & Economics

UBS Enables Remote ID Verification with NFC and Biometrics

Swiss customers can now open a bank account using their mobile phones and biometric passports

Finance & Economics

Amazon Offers Employees “Voluntary Severance”

The retail giant proposed “voluntary severance” to some employees this week to trim costs beyond the massive layoffs already announced

Finance & Economics

Banco BPI Opens in Metaverse

Portuguese bank BPI now has a virtual branch which customers can visit using Meta’s Oculus VR headset

Finance & Economics

Lloyds Bank combined spending and savings in a new solution for kids

Smart Start from Lloyds Bank gives kids an opportunity to manage their money and get into the habit of saving

Fintech & Ecommerce

SDK.finance wins 2nd place at Barclays Hackathon 2022, competing with IBM, Lloyds Bank, Masterсard

SDK.finance impressed an expert panel of judges by presenting their fully interactive CBDC solution prototype to demonstrate their solutions for the coding challenges

Finance & Economics

Lloyds Bank tops Barclays CBDC Hackathon

The Barclays CBDC Hackathon hosted nine teams addressing six key CBDC challenges. Lloyds Bank was awarded for its novel approach to the competition 

Finance & Economics

Embedded finance has potential for explosive growth

The new research suggests transaction value of embedded finance will double in the US to $7 trillion by 2026, redefining how consumers and businesses build and manage relationships with financial services

Science & Technology

Bitcoin mining can solve the global energy crisis: here’s how 

Repurposing Bitcoin mining heat can potentially help solve several energy problems

Blockchain & Crypto

Emirates NBD will run the Metaverse startup accelerator

Emirates NBD is looking for leading FinTech start-ups with digital experience and emerging technology players operating across the metaverse

Science & Technology

Digital Domestic Money Transfers to Surpass 300 Billion Globally by 2026

A new study revealed that the volume of digital domestic money transfer transactions will exceed 300 billion globally in 2026

Fintech & Ecommerce

Masterсard gives green light to NFT shopping

Masterсard plans to dig deep into web3 technology and NFT tokens.

Fintech & Ecommerce

More than 50% of сonsumers were victims of fraud on the web: survey

Despite fraudulent activities on the net, digital activity among customers is on the rise.