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Alternative data adoption in investing and finance

Source: Collective intelligence investing creates new rewards and risks Alternative data from sources like social media, news feeds, and payments information could bring end-to-end benefits to investment management (IM). But do the benefits outweigh the risks? This article outlines key considerations for IM firms. Top takeaways Alternative data have become valuable tools for IM firms…

Kaiser Permanente CEO on the organization’s healthcare “moonshot”

At the StartUp Health festival in San Francisco Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard Tyson spoke about the role innovation is playing in the company’s big strategic goals around preventive health. By KEVIN TRUONG  Post a comment / Jan 7, 2019 at 5:27 PM The main takeaway from Kaiser Permanente chairman and CEO Bernard J. Tyson’s appearance at the…

Blockchain’s Occam problem

Source: McKinsey & Company, January 2019  Matt Higginson, Marie-Claude Nadeau, and Kausik Rajgopal Blockchain over recent years has been extoled as a revolution in business technology. In the nine years since its launch, companies, regulators, and financial technologists have spent countless hours exploring its potential. The resulting innovations have started to reshape business processes, particularly in accounting…

The “Bank of Things”: The Application of IoT in the Financial Sector

The “Bank of Things”: The Application of IoT in the Financial Sector Source: www.cy-ot.com Put simply, the Internet of things (IoT) is the network of interrelated computing devices that connect and exchange data with one another via the Internet.  Comprised of billions of devices that transcend every major industry and shape each aspect of our…