Three Trends Shaping Banking

Bank Director CEO Al Dominick explains how companies like Amazon and Airbnb could influence the banking industry.

The Ugly Unethical Underside of Silicon Valley

As the list of startup scandals grows, it’s time to ask whether entrepreneurs are taking “fake it till you make it” too far.

Recklessness with the financial truth is often a sign of an economic bubble about to deflate—see the dot-bombs and Enron in late 2000 and the banks amid the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis. Scandals don’t cause recessions, but they can help trigger one. As White warned her Stanford audience: “Who loses when the truth behind inflated valuations is revealed? I think we all do.”

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Mobile Wallets Must Move Beyond Payments to Escape Infancy

From Payments Source –

“Mobile wallets remain in a nascent stage until service providers can deliver value beyond just payments.”

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