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The increasing pace of financial services is now responded by the industry’s necessity to upgrade. This has driven the experts to deduce that the finance, in today’s scenario, acts more as a facilitator than the purveyor of financial products and services. In such scenario, the amalgamation of Finance and Technology (FinTech) is the hottest sector to be in, thanks to enabling technologies like Blockchain, API, Big data analytics, AI/ML and Internet of Things. Of these, Blockchain holds the biggest promise.

Topics: Thought Leadership, Finance & Economics, Disruptive Technologies

The last few days witnessed an unprecedented increase of around 45 per cent in Bitcoin’s value resulting in a 20x price hike in less than a year. While the rally, at least in part, can be attributed to the launch of bitcoin futures on Chicago Board Option Exchange, the cryptocurrency has created frictions in the global financial system from the very beginning.

Topics: Thought Leadership, Finance & Economics, Disruptive Technologies

Written by Gleffany Pispis, Master of Global Business (MGB) student. SP Jain School of Global Management – Class of 2015.

Topics: Global Learning at SP Jain, SP Jain School of Global Management, Thought Leadership, Finance & Economics

With India’s continuous shift towards digitalisation of payment transactions, cybercrime has become more and more lucrative for cybercriminals. If the magnitude and multitude of data breaches reported worldwide in the recent past is any indication, India has a lot to be concerned about. It is reported that cybercrime is projected to reach $2 billion by 2019, which is a four-fold increase in the cost of security breaches over 2015. Likewise, during the last year, unknown malware downloads rose by over 900%, with more than 970 downloads per hour compared to 106 in the previous year.

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