Birmingham’s entrepreneurial and innovation landscape is in the spotlight as Steve Case's Rise of the Rest bus tour passed through the Magic City, where it made stops at the National Civil Rights Institute, the makerspace MAKEbhm, downtown business incubator Innovation Depot, and healthcare startup PackHealth....
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Seamless is the key meeting place for the colliding world of payments, banking and Fintech. This conference will bring together the entire financial eco-system to discuss, debate and evaluate alternative payment and banking strategies and technologies. 2018 was bigger than ever before: 160 speakers, 1000 attendees, and 80 exhibitors. Not only did Chace Hatcher, CEO of Diamond Fortress Technologies and DFT Empower participate in a panel...
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Three Solid Weeks of Promotion and Travel (Part 1 of 2) These are just some of the things we've been doing recently at Diamond Fortress Technologies / DFT Empower: The Financial Risks and Regulatory Challenges of Domestic and Global Money Laundering, Terrorism Financing and Fraud Conference This was great. And we didn't have to fly anywhere. Got to meet a lot of people, mainly from the US and...
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“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” - Charles Darwin In India today, 2% of the population has a credit card, 8% have a debit card, 35% have access to some kind (any kind) of account at a financial institution. However, 88% of the population has a mobile phone. According to U.K....
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The unbelievable explosion of technology and innovation online has led to an ever-increasing expansion and interconnection of the world’s finances. However many people live in third-world economies without access to our new digital economy. If these people don’t have access, then they can neither benefit from nor contribute to the technological advances most people in first-world countries enjoy. Financial Inclusion is the delivery of financial services...
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