Westpac’s Dave Curran warns of “trust gap” hovering over digital identity, open banking - Finance - Strategy - Cloud

Westpac’s Dave Curran warns of “trust gap” hovering over digital identity, open banking - Finance - Strategy - Cloud - iTnews

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“If you are going to move to a more open data-connected world, which we clearly are – open banking being the start, but we're going to see it across, and technology's going to create that – you have to solve the problem of digital identity,”

From Westpac’s Dave Curran warns of “trust gap” hovering over digital identity, open banking - Finance - Strategy - Cloud - iTnews.

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