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PWC’s Financial Services Technology 2020 and Beyond: Embracing Disruption report has been released. It examines the forces that are disrupting the role, structure and competitive environment for financial institutions and …
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Kazakhstan suffers from a lack of digitalization in the financial sector, as is evident by the fact that there is not a single full-fledged digital financial institution in the country. …
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