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Emerging Technology
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Embedded Finance: Finance-as-a-Service
November 20, 2020
As the as-a-Service business model keeps expanding from infrastructure to applications, financial services capabilities and products are being re-built to benefit from, and participate in, the platform economy.
The Promise and Peril of the Latest Tiny Technologies
October 30, 2020
Technologies have been getting smaller, and smarter, for a long time. But recent developments in miniaturization have changed the game. In medicine, nanotherapies – where nanoparticles (larger than an atom or a molecule, but smaller than a bulk...
AI, Neuralink, and the Evolution of Human-Machine Interfaces
October 22, 2020
Humans have enjoyed an intimate and physical relationship with technology and how they have interacted with tools throughout time. Throughout history the tools created by people have the same two basic characteristics: tools require that a user...
Seven Trends Shaping the Future of Fintech
October 1, 2020
In just five years the fintech landscape has shifted from a focus on solving vertical narrow problems, to being driven by broader horizontal trends. We have identified seven of what we believe are the most important trends shaping the future of...
How COVID-19 Changes the Future of Innovation
September 10, 2020
Sadly, it’s too easy to tally up the losses from COVID-19 – as of the end of August, more than 700,000 lives, millions of jobs, more than 100,000 small businesses in the U.S., and seven to ten months of learning for students. COVID-19 has also...
FCAT Supports Onboarding New Employees Using Virtual Reality
September 1, 2020
Facing a global pandemic and a continuing need to bring on new team members, Fidelity recently turned to FCAT for help in creating an immersive, interactive onboarding experience for employees. The test program was initiated to explore an...
Exploring Quantum Computing with Amazon Web Services
August 13, 2020
This Quantum-to-Quantum PoC showcases the ability to optimize the use of different quantum technologies, and also features a hardware-agnostic approach which enables Fidelity to easily switch to new quantum systems as they become available.