Technological disruption of smart contracts on payments clearance

1.   Introduction Financial technologies are typically comprised of payments, insurance, deposit and lending, capitalisation, investment management, and market provisioning, and each one of these sub sectors has distinct attraction to present significant challenges (Chishti et al., 2016). This paper is divided into three sections: Firstly, the paper will start by addressing the issues in one […]

Team performance management and associated learning plan

Performance management is a continuous phenomenon of evaluating and improving the performance of the employees both at the individual and team level to achieve the strategic goal of the organisation. Performance management not only plays a vital role in an employee’s wellbeing, but it also helps in achieving the strategic and operational goals of an […]

What is a Non-Fungible Token

The concept of non-fungible crypto tokens is not new. In 2013, Colored Coins was one of the first projects that attempted to tie unique properties to a digital asset. The idea was to use Bitcoin tokens to represent real-world assets like stocks, bonds, commodities, or the deed for a house. Counterparty was another project that built on this […]

Web Service vs. Microservice

There’s plenty of software-speak that goes whooshing over the heads of most people — and even some of the heads of those programming! Two of the terms that you might hear thrown about in the world of software are microservices and web services. These are both ways of defining software products by breaking larger software […]

AWS Vs Azure Vs GCP

Amazon, Microsoft and Google dominate the public cloud landscape providing the safest, flexible and reliable cloud services. Their respective cloud platforms, AWS, Azure and GCP offer clients a range of storage, computing and networking options. Some of the features common among the three platforms include instant provisioning, self-service, autoscaling, identity management, security and compliance, among […]