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Peer-to-peer banking - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The principle is simple – you lend to individuals at interest rates based on their credit rating, and since you’re cutting out the bank as middleman, both lender and depositer get more attractive interest rates than they can get commercially. Banks are the archetypical intermediary, in this case between depositers and lenders.

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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

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This year, Singapore-based Whampoa Group also selected Bahrain as the HQ location for its new digital bank. The long-term plan kicked off in 2007 with a strategy to digitise government. The story of success From the start, the Bahraini government’s digital transformation plan was comprehensive and bold. So far, so good.

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Interviews: Six important forces that will shape 2009 - Trends in the Living Networks

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Future Exploration Network. It is due to a phenomenon called Constant Partial Attention, or CPA, in which our attention is constantly divided between a massive array of channels now including mobile Internet, video screens on buses, and more. Outsourcing used to be for banks and telcos. About Ross Dawson. Books and Reports.

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Network Roundtable: Building Collaborative Teams - Trends in the Living Networks

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For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! Interestingly, they found no correlation between incentive schemes to support collboration and actual collaborative behaviors. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Sell-side banks become consultants - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

As such, the emerging domain of algorithmic trading – which largely automates trade execution – is in fact providing new ways for investment banks to create high-value relationships with the clients. However even greater value can be created by adding explicit value to clients’ decision-making processes.

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Lloyds TSB pilots social media - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Interview on the state of applying Web 2.0 In a recent post New ways of collaborating at the bank , James writes about how Lloyds TSB is piloting social media such as blogs.

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How to make Facebook secure for organizational use: no more excuses! - Trends in the Living Networks

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Ross Dawson, December 19, 2007 2:44 PM US PT I have written and being interviewed many times in the last few months on the use of Facebook in organizations. Financial market traders started using IM because it was useful, but banks were concerned about security and audit trails. The same thing is happening with social networks.

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