Banks still protected from start-ups

Original article by Shaun Drummond
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 23 : 6/19/2014

Banks have spent billions on technology, but they are still vulnerable to competition from start-ups in the field of new banking technologies. The issue was discussed at a forum held in Sydney on 17 June 2014. Paul Bassat, co-founder of SEEK and Square Peg Capital, said that start-ups were particularly active in developing new technologies that facilitate payments and peer-to-peer lending. The position of banks is however so strong that disruption in the banking sector is not an immediate issue

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