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Crypto-Currency Regulation in the GCC: Project Aber & the Remittance Economy
*Originally Published Dec 2021. Abstract COVID-19 massively accelerated the extent to which GCC markets were exposed to crypto-currencies, particularly in the UAE, which for a number of months saw elements of the global crypto-community descend on Dubai. Beginning in 2015, GCC States such as the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have demonstrated advanced regulatory and policy innovation in the FinTech space. Now GCC states stand at a cross-roads. On the one hand, the UAE, Bahrain and incr...
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Banking Without Banks: How API’s are Transforming Royal Bank of Scotland
In the past one of the most enduring relationships of your lifetime, was probably with your bank. Most people kept their bank account longer than their first home ( or possibly even their spouse). For millennials and our parents’ generation, the bank was an unavoidable fact of life. Now all that is changing. Jamie Broadbent is the Head of Digital, Innovation and Design at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), one of the UK largest banking giants. For Jamie, there is a revolution taking place in how w...
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Archiving Cyberspace: How Blockchain Records & AI Filtration Can Preserve a Digital Era
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