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Super Apps Rising: Mobile Drives Digital Payments Uptick In Pakistan

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In Pakistan, and elsewhere, the stars are aligning for greater use of digital banking and payments to improve financial inclusion. told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster in an interview that the pandemic and the rise of mobile infrastructure have set the stage to bring people living in developing and emerging economies into the digital realm.

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Lost Pet Posters Get An Upgrade For The Digital Age

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Still, that seems so old-fashioned in this digital age — at least according to Andrea Chavez, Founder of Pawscout , a company whose signature product is a Bluetooth-enabled tag that not only helps pet owners find their wayward pets, but gives them access to other digital and mobile services.

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Reliance Says It Will Roll Out 5G In Late 2021

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Other rivals, such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea , say the 5G tech isn't as close as Reliance Jio says, and that it could be another two years away due to India's lacking ecosystem and the expensive price tag, the report says. Jio Platforms said in October it was working with U.S.-based

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NXP Rolls Out Privacy-Enabled Tag Chips For IoT

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NXP Semiconductors in late September introduced its latest NTAG DNA tag chip, providing privacy-enabled, multi-layered security for NFC and IoT authentication applications. With the new NTAG 424 DNA, brands can fight counterfeit and grey market activities at a cost that enables mass-market deployment of advanced NFC tags.

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Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating this shift, making financial institutions (FIs), merchants and their regulatory officials race to secure these new digital users. MENA nations’ original rules involved data privacy, but they were focused on developing the open banking ecosystem and allowing information to move freely.

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PodChats for FutureCFO: Why CFOs need to drive ESG initiatives

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Big price tags and longer timelines. Moyer says digital business is probably a 10-to-20-year transformation. Fouesnant suggests that the first thing is to keep up to speed with everything that’s happening with the ESG ecosystem. The next challenge for CFOs is impact measurement.

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Getting To The Core Of Apple’s (And Everyone Else’s) China Issue

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Turns out, too, that the famed iOS ecosystem is not the lure that it may be in other parts of the world, as The Wall Street Journal noted that many consumers prefer to spend their time in the confines of other ecosystems that span social media, payments and, of course, any other number of applications, notably WeChat.

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