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Practice Listening: Summarize Spoken Text ID: #34925 Short Digital currency
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Why would the banks disrupt themselves by introducing a digital currency that would make it easier for consumers and businesses to dis-intermediate the banks? Well, the banks may not be the innovators. It may be that they are the reactors that they will react when others innovate. And I'm sure that they've considered the tradeoffs involved in whether to disrupt themselves by introducing digital currencies, or whether to wait and react when others introduce digital currencies. Right now digital currency sounds very edgy and kind of alternative lifestyle, but it's becoming the mainstream. And so, the largest banks in particular are very aware of this, they're investing in the technology, and they will provide this service as soon as it is profitable enough, after considering the cost to them of losing some of their current business that they're going to disrupt. Banks will eventually either be leading, or following, but they'll be involved. They can't avoid it.
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The talk not only meticulously outlines the significance of disrupting banks, but also vividly points out the importance of digital currencies and alternative lifestyles. Besides, it provides a brief overview of investing technologies, followed by current businesses and providing services. To put it simply, coping with vicissitudes and attaining acumen seem to hold one in good stead, as far as broadening their horizons is concerned.
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