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Dubai-based accounting and financial compliance startup, Wafeq, raises $3M

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The United Arabs Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia became the first member states to adopt the treaty in 2018, and its implementation meant that for the first time businesses in these territories were required to file VAT returns periodically. Wafeq says its powering accounting and financial compliance for SMEs.

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Building-code compliance startup UpCodes gets $3.36M in pre-Series A funding

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UpCodes , a startup that develops building-code compliance tools, announced today it has raised $3.36 It is also used by rental tenants, landlords, homeowners, general contractors, plumbers and electricians — basically anyone with a question about building-code compliance. million in pre-Series A funding. trillion-dollar industry.

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Shield bags $15M Series A to address surging demand for its AI-powered communication compliance platform

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Over the past two years, since the pandemic hit, there has been a sharp rise in financial crime compliance costs, nearing $50 billion in 2021 , up 58% compared to 2019, in the U.S. It will also ramp up the development of its communication compliance platform. . and Canada.

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What to expect at the JupyterCon 2018 Business Summit

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So, we’re excited to be expanding the enterprise-related content at the Business Summit at JupyterCon 2018 in New York City in August. We’ve encountered several large use cases within DoD and finance, for example, so one of our goals for the Business Summit at JupyterCon 2018 is to bring those use cases and practices into one place.

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CPRA for Developers: Road to CCPA 2.0 Compliance

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It replaces the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and is often described as a cousin to the EU’s GDPR law. It also requires compliance from anyone doing business in California or collecting […]. Compliance appeared first on DevOps.com. The law applies to all for-profit organizations within the state.

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AI startup Fourthline locks down $54M to bring better ID checks and compliance tools to the finance sector

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Fourthline has been around since 2013 — building its tech for five years before commercially launching in 2018 — and it has been mostly growing on its own steam, with only €70 million raised to date, including this latest €50 million injection. The valuation of the company is not being disclosed.

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Tiger Global leads $34M investment into Unit21, a no-code fraud prevention platform

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F ormer Affirm product manager Trisha Kothari and C larence Chio founded Unit21 in 2018 with the goal of giving risk, compliance and fraud teams a way to fight financial crime via a “secure, integrated, no-code platform.” . Image Credits: Unit21. billion for those types of breaches since 2008. .