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Personal vs Public: Rethinking Privacy
An incident I recently witnessed in my neighbourhood has caused to me to rethink how we should be defining “privacy”. Data protection is one thing, but when our privacy can be compromised via the...
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Deconstructing #Digital Obsolescence
Remember the video format wars of the 1980s? At one point, VHS and Betamax were running neck and neck in the consumer market, but VHS eventually won out (although the also-ran V2000 was technically...
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#FinTech – using data to disintermediate banks?
At a recent #FinTechMelb meetup event, Aris Allegos, co-founder and CEO of Moula, talked about how the on-line SME lender had raised $30m in investor funding from Liberty Financial within 9 months of...
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Assessing Counterparty Risk post-GFC – some lessons for #FinTech
At the height of the GFC, banks, governments, regulators, investors and corporations were all struggling to assess the amount of credit risk that Lehman Brothers represented to global capital markets...
View ArticleBig Data – Panacea or Pandemic?
You’ve probably heard that “data is the new oil” (but you just need to know where to drill?). Or alternatively, that the growing lakes of “Big Data” hold all the answers, but they don’t necessarily...
View ArticleAn open letter to American Express
Dear American Express, I have been a loyal customer of yours for around 20 years. (Likewise my significant other.) I typically pay my monthly statements on time and in full. I’ve opted for paperless...
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