TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Fair , a multilingual digital bank and financial services platform, is launching to the public after raising $20 million in 40 days earlier this year. There was not a single check from a VC or bank or from a family office,” Parekh told TechCrunch. I was an engineer by background, but was very confused with the American banking system.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The wealth technology company was co-founded in 2019 by Taylor Matthews and Brad Genser, who say Farther is “a new kind of financial institution” catering to high-net-worth professionals building generational wealth but want the freedom of both an automated system and a professional.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I think it nets out to a changing market, but not one that has settled on a new level of risk tolerance. The net is that some investors appear to be dialing back their appetite for high-priced startup rounds, while others are, well, not. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, February 3, 2022! What the heck does that mean?

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Perficient

MARCH 25, 2025

A mid-sized bank I was consulting with for their data warehouse modernization project finally realized that data isn’t just some necessary but boring stuff the IT department hoards in their digital cave. The bank implemented robust data governance practices to enhance data quality, security, and compliance.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You’ve heard of SPACs, meme stocks and buy now, pay later, but have you heard of the LTSE, First Women’s Bank and Upsolve? Whether they are and what net outcomes they yield for various stakeholders are useful questions. The binary views are reminiscent of those we saw during the ICO frenzy in 2018.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

Writer’s note: We’re breaking from our usual formatting this week because there was a once-in-a-generation collapse of one of the biggest banks in the country. On Friday, I wrote about how Silicon Valley Bank has been closed by regulators , which are now in charge of the bank’s deposits.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2021

While StashAway has built an reputation for attracting first-time investors, about 20% of its assets under management come from high-net-worth individuals. If you have less than $10 million to $15 million in wealth, the services you receive from private banks are not particularly sophisticated or personalized. trillion,” Ferrario said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

After a flurry of local reports exposing the firm’s massive debt, which is reported to be as high as $520 million , a district court in Shanghai placed Ziwutong Beijing Asset Management, the parent organization behind Danke, on the country’s “social credit” blacklist. when it went public in January.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Financial services, especially those for people who don’t have access to traditional bank accounts or lines of credit, are proliferating in Southeast Asia. Jeff App wants to give consumers a “super app” where they can compare many financial products and apply for them using the startup’s proprietary data-scoring models.

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Capgemini

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This kind of objection should resonate with anyone who has embarked on the transition to net zero. Employees play a crucial role in Transition to Net Zero. The company thus needs to help its people develop or extend the competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) required to reach their net zero ambitions. Sound familiar?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Months after acquiring gamified finance mobile app startup Long Game, Truist Financial Corporation has introduced the Truist Foundry, an innovation division that it says “will function as a startup within the bank.” The goal will be to deliver “game-changing projects” and serve the bank’s lines of business. Pymnts has more here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The startup’s API links to farmers’ bank accounts, where its algorithm assesses financials to provide a “farm read,” scoring the farms’ financial health. The pitch: Wagr will allow sports fans to bet with peers in a social, fair, and simple way. There is strength in numbers, says the firm. ” 16.)

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Italian-born Gregorio Gilardini and Alejandro Garay, who hails from Spain, met in Peru several years ago and discovered they both had an interest in using technology to make a social impact and help people escape “the poverty trap.”. It also requires a down payment of 5%, compared to the 20% to 30% required by most banks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Globally, banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platforms, such as Unit and Treasury Prime, have helped newly launched businesses scale to thousands of customers. Nigerian YC-backed startup Anchor comes out of stealth with $1M+ to scale its banking-as-a-service platform. YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

While the little amounts they paid for rent could actually service a loan, traditional banks either required significant collateral or very high down payments. These boda boda riders earned enough to pay motorcycle rent and survive, but not enough to build significant savings. “Debt is Tugende’s fuel for growth.

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Dataiku

JULY 26, 2021

All major players have now taken firm commitments to embed Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria in all their critical processes, with a strong focus on global warming management. The race to ESG continues to accelerate in the financial services space.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

It’s also worth noting that despite having a marketing slogan which paints itself as “your bank of things”, Twig is not actually a bank; rather a Twig account is an “e-money account” — so there are key regulatory differences (such as Twig accounts not being covered by the UK’s deposit guarantee scheme).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Other investors include Chicago-based venture firm Vested World, the German Development Bank (DEG) and high-net worth individuals with a keen interest in tech-health. “We Once we are done with the heavy lifting from that expansion, we will be training our sights on other countries.”.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

CIOs and IT leaders are uniquely positioned to contribute based on their ability to extract vendor commitments, prioritize socially relevant improvements, and lead data strategy as it informs AI and automation investments. Stakeholder expectations are driving focus. For example: WSJ ’s survey of more than 2,000 U.S.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

You don’t even need strong social skills. This feeling is so important to humans that social scientists consider it a basic human need. Talk about it on social media. And don’t just read the AI summary or data readout, says Laura Merling, chief transformation and operations officer at Arvest Bank. This is scary.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

How is Twitter doing?’ : That was one of Alex ’s questions today as he examined the social media giant’s performance and stock prices in light of Elon Musk’s unsolicited bid — can we keep calling it that even though it probably surprised no one? We got our votes in, but we’d love your help, too. Cast your vote before April 21 !

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Locket shoots to the top of app stores : Today Sarah Perez added me on a new social service, leading to us trading selfies and dog pics back and forth. We’re low on time, but there was so much more: This African e-commerce company just closed a Series A, Mostly AI landed $25 million , and Qonto – also in the business banking space like Novo!

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CIO

APRIL 19, 2023

How do you define ‘best-in-class’ from a social perspective? I think about this in the context of a ‘relationship bank.’ When we are in the office and having impromptu discussions about our personal lives, or getting a meal together, or having non-work-related discussions, we are making deposits into the relationship bank.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The four-month global operation, titled Synergia II and announced this week, involved law enforcement agencies and private-sector partners from 95 countries and netted 41 arrests. Meanwhile, in Estonia, authorities seized 80GB of server data, which is now being analyzed for links to phishing and banking malware.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. If you’re paid on a per-deal basis, your contract may have adjustments for netting of carry. These are primarily full-time team members, but PE funds also employ investment banks as well as freelance “finders.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

Then in the first quarter of 2022 alone, Better.com recorded a staggering net loss of $327.7 Because of this explosive growth trajectory, the UK digital bank reached profitability for the first time. Panacea Financial describes itself as a “bank built for doctors, by doctors.” million, according to an SEC filing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

The anti-social media Image Credits: Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto / Getty Images I’m not gonna lie, I’m getting really bored of two billionaires bloviating about wanting to beat seven bells out of each other, MMA style. On that cheerful and highly opinionated note, let’s see what’s happening in the rest of startup land this week!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In an interview with author and MIT professor Sinan Aral , Managing Editor Danny Crichton discussed some of the debates currently swirling around the desire in some quarters to regulate social media platforms. How did fashion marketplace Poshmark go from posting regular losses in 2019 to generating net income in 2020?

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2022

In fact, more than 3,200 companies have set science-based carbon targets , and thousands of companies from around the world are pledging to reach net-zero emissions by either 2040 or 2050. It’s imperative that sustainability teams, tech experts and executives come together to make the authentic, impactful progress we need to make.

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Coding Horror

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

On successful phish leads to an even wider address book attack net down the line. SMS can famously be intercepted, social engineered, or sim-jacked all too easily. So install an authenticator app, and use it, at least for your most important credentials such as your email account and your bank. adds printed backup codes, too?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Whether or not they decide to go the prepaid route, workers can link ZayZoon to their bank accounts for spending insights in addition to alerts of overdraft and minimum account balance fees. ” It remains unclear whether EWA programs are a net positive for companies, however.

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Deutsche Bank launched its own tech hub in Berlin, pulling operations and staff from Russia amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For tech workers making the move to Stockholm, they will also benefit from Sweden’s social supports, such as free education, free childcare, and other safety nets in place to support citizens.

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Perficient

JUNE 7, 2023

On May 31, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reported to the public what many banks already knew and had been experiencing for the past year – that deposits are declining in the American banking sector. Trillion removed from the banking system over the past year. There has almost been $1.2 While more than $.5

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Capgemini

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Companies around the world in sectors from energy to finance have become increasingly motivated to track the progress of their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs. By continuously improving our programs over just 15 months, we are now on track to reach net zero by 2040, a 10-year improvement from our original target.

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Women on Business

JULY 9, 2012

A business’ EIN works very much like a person’s social security number, acting as a unique identifier for government purposes. 2- Get a business bank account – Banks prefer to provide a business line of credit to a company that has a positive financial track record.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

That would make generative AI potentially more disruptive than the internet, social media, and the mobile revolution. CEOs are optimistic however, with 44% projecting genAI contributing to a net increase in profits and 35% anticipating an increase in revenue. The state of ROI of genAI Business leaders are expecting a lot from AI.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

APRIL 24, 2018

In the news, notably there was the James Somers article, “The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete” , in The Atlantic , and a subsequent piece, “Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper” , by Paul Romer, former chief economist at the World Bank. The more I learn about the open source community, the more I trust its members.”.

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