Bank & Finance Watch

This studio investigates the effects of digitalization on architectural typology and the contemporary city. In our first year 2006/07, we examine the changes of one particular typology: the architecture of banking. We question the fundamental concept of what a bank is today, and develop architectural strategies for its potential futures.

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 aKos Technology Corporation is the pioneering force behind the emergence of mobile remittances. By marrying wireless services and money-transfer technology, we enable wireless carriers to offer remittance services to their subscribers. As a result, individuals can send money internationally from their mobile phone and recipients can receive those funds in cash at merchants they already frequent. Now, wireless carriers can take part in the multi-billion dollar global remittance market.

by Claus Lehmann

NZ Extracted from site Have an idea? Just need funding? Want to join with others to support to an idea? This site is for you.

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The motivation behind Donorge is to grow the ability to transparently support ideas and creation, either localized or connected around the world. What is supported inside Donorge is what you support and what in turn those ideas and creations you support support. This allows for there being more transparency and potential effectiveness at the resource layer of organizations and their voluntary contributed resources.

This studio investigates the effects of digitalization on architectural typology and the contemporary city. In our first year 2006/07, we examine the changes of one particular typology: the architecture of banking. We question the fundamental concept of what a bank is today, and develop architectural strategies for its potential futures.

Social Entrepreneur data discovery platform (US). Uses social networking diagrams to discover areas of overlap among social enterprise entities, both for profit and non-profit

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 aKos Technology Corporation is the pioneering force behind the emergence of mobile remittances. By marrying wireless services and money-transfer technology, we enable wireless carriers to offer remittance services to their subscribers. As a result, individuals can send money internationally from their mobile phone and recipients can receive those funds in cash at merchants they already frequent. Now, wireless carriers can take part in the multi-billion dollar global remittance market.

by Claus Lehmann

NZ Extracted from site Have an idea? Just need funding? Want to join with others to support to an idea? This site is for you.

The UpDown plans to single out the members whose imaginary portfolios show the best performance and use their strategies to manage a real stock fund seeded by Swiss angel investor Joachim Schoss.

Revenues from the fund will be used to operate the company and reward the top performers.

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The motivation behind Donorge is to grow the ability to transparently support ideas and creation, either localized or connected around the world. What is supported inside Donorge is what you support and what in turn those ideas and creations you support support. This allows for there being more transparency and potential effectiveness at the resource layer of organizations and their voluntary contributed resources.