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xxx Both clients and escorts can write and read reviews about their experience. The app also tracks location and requires credit card details. “Because we pre-authorise clients’ credit cards, which is basically we guarantee the amount of the booking,” Mr Coppa said. “And then require as part of the appointment process the escort to sightContinue reading “Sex workers app Rendevu wants to make it easier, safer to connect escorts with clients – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)”

snippet The significant advantages of digitization, with respect to customer experience, revenue, and cost, have become increasingly compelling. The momentum to adopt the new technologies and operating models needed to capture these benefits continues to build. The risk function, which has seen significant growth in costs over the past decade, should be no exception. [FromContinue reading “Digital risk: Transforming risk management for the 2020s | McKinsey & Company”

snippet But if governments rely too heavily on the market forces associated with reputation, business fraud can become sufficiently common and sufficiently costly to threaten public confidence in capitalist institutions. [From Edward Balleisen on the long history of fraud in America ] snippet

snippet We’ve also gained some other important insights that will be relevant to the business case for this type of DLT application: Most cost savings appear unlikely to come in the core system itself, but rather more likely through reducing bank reconciliation efforts. The initial design is quite collateral intensive while the current system isContinue reading “Project Jasper: Lessons From Bank of Canada’s First Blockchain Project – CoinDesk”

xxx A police worker who seduced a detention officer to find the identity of a witness in her boyfriend’s murder trial has been jailed. Lydia Lauro, 33, got a job at Hammersmith Police Station after her boyfriend was jailed for his part in a shooting. From Woman jailed over plot to expose key witness inContinue reading “Woman jailed over plot to expose key witness in murder trial – BBC News”

xxx The average customer interacts with his or her bank at least twice a day for payments-related matters, such as buying a financial product, checking on a payment, or paying a bill. These interactions represent more than 80 percent of customer interactions with banks, making payments a superb platform, or beachhead, for cross-selling other financialContinue reading “The digital battle that banks must win | McKinsey & Company”

I am beginning to sound like a broken record (note to younger readers: I mean of the vinyl kind) on this one, I feel moved to point out once again that IS_A_PERSON may turn out to be the most valuable credential in the very near future. If this is true, then Consult Hyperion should seekContinue reading “POST Internet dating as a test case”

xxx Police say data recorded by a man’s cardiac pacemaker helped lead to his indictment on charges of aggravated arson and insurance fraud in a fire at his Ohio home. From Police: Ohio man’s cardiac pacemaker data leads to charges xxx

snippet Cannings Free Range Butchers in Melbourne, decided to go cashless so butchers do not have to handle coins and notes often riddled with pathogens like E. coli, shigella or staphylococcus bacteria. [From Rise of card-only shops and lower interchange fees drive cashless economy | afr.com] snippet

snippet today 3.5 million Norwegians use it not just for banking but a range of other services. In 2015 BankID was used 430 million times, a number that has increased year by year as more services are made available. It is a two-factor-solution, with a key fob-style token  –  or an optional mobile app  – Continue reading “Norway adding mobile digital identity function to its BankID program – SecureIDNews”