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What’s the State of Banking Innovation in 2017?

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What is the state of banking innovation today? Fintech funding has grown tougher for startups, but banks’ balance sheets are looking stronger– what does it mean for innovation? Talk has shifted from last year’s discussions on blockchain and chatbots to artificial intelligence and cloud-based cores.

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New Ransomware Uses Social Media, Demands Payment in Bitcoin

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A new type of ransomware is targeting users through their social media accounts, most notably through Facebook and LinkedIn, before doing what ransomware does: locking the computer and demanding payment for access–in bitcoin.

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China, Alibaba Are Big Players On The Blockchain Patent Block

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In tech, innovation is everything. In innovation, intellectual property is, well, almost everything — it can be the hardware, the software, the processes that come from creative endeavor. Last year, 56 percent of all blockchain patents issued trace their genesis from China. Alibaba Bets On The Blockchain. And patents?

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Microsoft’s Blockchain Guru Marley Gray Joins Speaker Faculty

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Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv.

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This Singapore Fintech Wants U.S. Banks To Be As Engaging As Amazon

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A lot of data is being generated and collected on a daily basis thanks to social media, IoT, and online customer behavior (Upstart, for example, uses this method for its underwriting decisions). Customer data is (arguably) the most valuable asset in many industries, financial services included.

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Facebook Goes Hard at Blockchain

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Facebook has formed a team to tackle blockchain initiatives. Marcus's involvement implies that the blockchain effort might have some financial services implications. And it has put the former PayPal President David Marcus in charge of the effort. Last December, Marcus joined the board of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange.

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And The Payments And Commerce Innovation Winners Are…

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And, as America found out what actually happens when the wrong name gets read on stage, PwC found out what happens when Twitter decides to rename your firm — as our CEO (and former PwC employee) Karen Webster told those assembled at the Innovation Project’s annual awards dinner last night. And the winners are… Best POS Innovation.