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Banking on bots 

You may have seen the recent announcements from #Microsoft’s CEO declaring that bots are the next big thing with the company creating a platform for the creation of bots on other platforms – including its own Skype Instant Messenger channel. Following this, Facebook also premiered their platform at their f8 conference.

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The Digital Bank: Empowering the workforce 

Banking professionals have access to a whole host of modern productivity tools to enable them to work more effectively. We hear from Peter Hazou about the opportunities available to banks and their employees.

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Global banks join Efma, Microsoft and Avanade to recognize fintech solution award winners at the 2016 Efma Distribution Summit 

Efma, Microsoft and Avanade are working together with some of the world’s largest financial institutions to launch a new Fintech portal, www.efma.com/fintech, to connect the rapidly expanding fintech community with retail banks and insurance firms globally. Today at the Efma Distribution Summit in London, Efma announced the fintech solution winners, based on entries within the portal, and selected by a committee of senior banking and insurance executives. The committee selected best-in-class fintech solutions within the following categories: Business Banking; Distribution and Marketing; Insurance; and PFM-Payments.

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Azure Blockchain as a Service update #7 

Azure's Blockchain as a Service continues to grow at a very rapid pace. In order to consolidate all of the various partner offerings and make them more easily discoverable for the most common uses, there are now going to be three main places where these assets can be found: •Certified Marketplace •Template library •DevTest labs •Artifact repo. Also- This week Microsoft welcomes: Algorythmix, Expanse, Influx, Monero, Radium and Tendermint.