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Banking with a chatbot: a battle between convenience and security

  • Written by Kate Letheren, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Soon, you will be able to check your bank balance or transfer money through Facebook Messenger and Twitter as banks experiment with chatbots. Companies like Ikea have used customer service chatbots for close to a decade. But their use in financial services represents a new tension - do we want...

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