Would you rather test your cashierless store idea with employees or shoplifters?
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Insights and Stories:
Blockchainin’ Nigeria: The startup market in Africa is gathering steam, but there’s a funding problem. In a continent notorious for government corruption, blockchain might be a way to add confidence to investors.
Defy with DeFi: Decentralized finance is gathering some steam and along with it arbitrary milestones and cautious predictions. There’s a billion bucks committed to DeFi and hopefully no reincarnation of John Law.
No oil for You!: Without some Open Banking rules in North America, banks and fintechs are sparring in the press about data security. Who controls the data and who is responsible for it, is an important question. With the new digital oil at stake, good thing the network pipelines can still be built.
Five finger discount: 7-Eleven is testing out a cashierless store using the valuable advice of their employees, aka not their target market. Wouldn’t a few secret shoplifters provide some more real world insight into the veracity of the concept than people you pay?
Regulation and Research:
SEC Commissioner Speech on Tokenization: A Proposal to Fill the Gap Between Regulation and Decentralization Highly recommended. Tl,Dr: Crypto bros, fill yer boots.
State of Financial Services Industry: Report 2020 (Oliver Wyman): The must read of the week. Terrific summary of conversations with financial CEO’s about innovation and challenges. If you are selling technology to the financial sector, print this one off.
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Press Release:
Boom! A new Canadian dollar stablecoin aka QCAD
NCFA and KABN Systems North America enter multi-year exclusive partnership to promote Digital Identity in Canada
BIGG Digital Assets Inc subsidiary Blockchain Intelligence Group Signs CAD~$715,000 Contract with United States Federal Government Agency
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