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This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The UK watchdog built an experimental trading app platform to ...

Bunchball launched a sales gamification app for Salesforce.com a year ago as a kind of interesting experiment in motivating a sales force through game-like incentives. Today, the company is unveiling ...

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Gamification is the use of game mechanics in non-gaming contexts. In fintech, it’s a tool that makes using an app more engaging, intuitive, and even fun. Instead of dry numbers, users get achievement ...

The UK financial regulator has expressed concerns over the gamification of trading apps, saying it is pushing consumers “towards more frequent or riskier trading”. On the back of an experiment with ...

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Ashok Kamal is cofounder and CEO of green social media marketing company Bennu. When I told VentureBeat I wanted to write a piece about the rise of green gamification — the use of games to make ...