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Fostering Innovation at Discover Financial Services

CIO Business Intelligence

So, how does a digital bank like Discover empower engineers to continuously generate, test, and launch new ideas? To flesh out these solutions Discover builds innovation squads, or virtual cross-functional teams dedicated to tackling a common problem. With built-in resources that nurture innovation and push the industry forward.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

I’m a banking technologist,” says the CIO for retail, business, and digital banking at M&T Bank. He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. The bank’s use of its mainframes is two-pronged. M&T Bank.

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Sharing my life story from a virtual perspective

Trends in the Living Networks

Last week on The Virtual Excellence Show our scheduled guest was not able to make it at short notice, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to share my own life story and how it relates to the virtual. Hi, welcome to The Virtual Excellence Show. So I thought it’d be worth sharing my story of the virtual.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

“Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change. The new ads were created very quickly,” says Banks. So far, Castillo has been publishing her work with open-source licenses.

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Elevate Your Protection Strategy at CSO’s Future of Cybersecurity Summit

CIO Business Intelligence

Shadare, along with Orca Security advisory CISO Andy Ellis and Spire Security Vice President of Research Pete Lindstrom, will share cybersecurity metrics that matter as part of CSO’s Future of Cybersecurity Summit , taking place virtually July 19-20.

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

I’m certain we were well ahead of the game when major UK banks were calling our people for help because their employees couldn’t work from home.”. We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”. We didn’t have the bottlenecks our competitors had. It worked like magic.

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What is a Blockchain, and why is it here to stay?

Galido

Bitcoin in a nutshell is a global peer to peer payments networking that is open to all with a computer or smartphone, open source, decentralized from banks, have no middle men, no issuers or acquirers. International buyers are subject to fees, setup bank accounts, etc.

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