The National Bank of Bahrain launches the Digital Banking Challenge in strategic partnership with Bahrain FinTech Bay; one of MENA’s largest FinTech Hubs open for all Bahraini youth to develop new and creative solutions focused on NBB's new digital banking app.
Singapore's Azentio Software has acquired the core banking software assets of Path Solutions, a technology supplier to 150+ Islamic financial institutions across the globe.
As brands and consumers seek a return to the physical retail space post Covid-19, the technology that has enabled ecommerce to fill the gap as stores were closed will play a vital role in the recovery of that same bricks-and-mortar retail. Shoppers, particularly in the UK, want a “connected shopping” experience.
We’re not short of articles, op-eds and whitepapers talking about the future of retail. It’s been written about plenty of times concerning new and probably entrenched behaviors in commerce.
Stores everywhere are stuck in a race to innovate. But as consumers set digital wellbeing boundaries, Cecelia Girr and Skyler Hubler of TBWA’s cultural intelligence unit Backslash explain why retailers will be forced to walk an increasingly delicate tech tightrope. For more explore The Drum’s Retail Deep Dive.