CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the role of the CIO has transcended simply managing IT infrastructure to becoming a pivotal player in enabling business strategy. He was selected as a Wells Fargo Global Fellow, whereby he helped a Philippine Micro Finance Bank and its clients in conjunction with Bankers Without Borders.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Like other data-rich industries, banking, capital markets, insurance and payments firms are lucrative targets with high-value information. Meurer further explains this concept: "My point around simplifying UI experience is more so for the banks, cybersecurity operators [and] their SOC teams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. Fintech companies are increasingly collaborating with traditional players like banks, payment agencies, insurance providers and stock exchanges. Ximena Aleman. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The San Mateo-based company works with fintech and vertical SaaS companies and offers banking, payments, cards and cryptocurrency products via easy-to-integrate APIs. Wise raises another $12 million to double down on embedded business banking. We understood what they were looking for — that demand for modern infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Founded in 2017 by Hilda Moraa , Pezesha has built a scalable digital lending infrastructure that allows both traditional and non-traditional finance institutions to offer working capital to MSMEs. Pezesha is tapping local and international banking institutions, HNWIs and DeFi for additional liquidity for onward lending.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

However, there is a problem in alternative assets: the lack of digital infrastructure. What’s more, the user experience is so bad, you would not want to scale it: PDFs, manual bank wires and clunky investor portals are the current “state of the art” here. Modernizing the infrastructure for traditional alts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX’s commercial bank partners now extend vehicle purchase loans to drivers, using data provided by the mobility company in credit risk assessment. As part of its catalogue of services, MAX plans to build electric vehicle infrastructure in its new markets, with the intention of introducing EVs to its emerging clientele.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The world must reshape its technology infrastructure to ensure artificial intelligence makes good on its potential as a transformative moment in digital innovation. New technologies, such as generative AI, need huge amounts of processing power that will put electricity grids under tremendous stress and raise sustainability questions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Treasury Prime co-founder and CEO Chris Dean believes that the best outcomes for consumers will result from traditional banks and fintechs working together. The banking-as-a-service startup has worked to build relationships with both banks and fintechs. As we had more fintechs, it became easier to add more banks.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

As I work with financial services and banking organizations around the world, one thing is clear: AI and generative AI are hot topics of conversation. In the finance and banking industry, however, organizations are seeking extra guidance on the best way forward. In short, yes. But it’s an evolution.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

Orum , which aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between banks, announced today it has raised $56 million in a Series B round of funding. As a certified financial planner, Kirkpatrick says she saw firsthand what she describes as “deep cracks” in this country’s financial infrastructure.

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CIO

APRIL 28, 2023

Data about who owes how much to whom is at the core of any bank’s business. At Bank of New York Mellon, that focus on data shows up in the org chart too. Chief Data Officer Eric Hirschhorn reports directly to the bank’s CIO and head of engineering, Bridget Engle, who also oversees CIOs for each of the bank’s business lines.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. million in two rounds and the company will use the investment to expand its data infrastructure across Nigeria. . So far, these regulators appear not to be concerned with the activities of API fintech infrastructure startups.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

AI and Machine Learning will drive innovation across the government, healthcare, and banking/financial services sectors, strongly focusing on generative AI and ethical regulation. Data sovereignty and local cloud infrastructure will remain priorities, supported by national cloud strategies, particularly in the GCC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Banking infrastructure providers are mainly responsible for the proliferation of such solutions. They allow businesses such as mobile operators, e-commerce platforms, and logistics companies to embed and enable banking products for their customers. Banking-as-a-service startup Unit closes on $100M at a $1.2B

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Jiko started its life as a mobile bank for consumers. Then last November, Jiko revealed it was pivoting from that consumer-focused model and “accelerating its business-to-business strategy,” as reported by Banking Dive. In 2020, Jiko made headlines by being the first fintech to acquire a nationally regulated U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that aims to build “DeFi for traditional finance,” has raised $16 million in a Series A round of funding led by CM Ventures. From a product architecture standpoint, Productfy has been built “from the ground up,” he said, to operate with multiple banking partners. Productfy Inc. ,

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Data sovereignty and the development of local cloud infrastructure will remain top priorities in the region, driven by national strategies aimed at ensuring data security and compliance. The Internet of Things will also play a transformative role in shaping the regions smart city and infrastructure projects.

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Coforge

MARCH 23, 2025

The banking sector in the UK is facing an alarming surge in IT outages, disrupting essential financial services and eroding customer trust. A recent parliamentary report highlights that major banks have collectively experienced at least 158 significant IT failures over the past two years, causing over 800 hours of service downtime.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Among them: Banking: Organizations are delivering personalized solutions with recommendations and enhancing customer service operations with avatar-assisted services and Natural Language Processing (NPL) chatbots that fulfill service requests promptly.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

At the end of last week, venture-backed robo-adviser Wealthfront snuck in an announcement that the deal in which it was to be acquired by Swiss banking giant UBS for $1.4 Of course, this is not the first time that we’ve seen a deal for a large bank to acquire a fintech company fall apart over regulatory concerns. bank regulator.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Nazca and IDB Invest, the private sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, co-led the round and were joined by existing and new investors CoVenture, SilverCircle, Korify Capital, Infinitas Capital and GBM Mexico. Wonder Brands , an acquirer of e-commerce brands in Latin America, announced today the closing of $15.5

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Mohamed Salah Abdel Hamid Abdel Razek, Senior Executive Vice President and Group Head of Tech, Transformation & Information, Mashreq explains how the bank is integrating advanced technologies and expanding its digital footprint. This approach has significantly enhanced the customer banking experience.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

The concept is ubiquitous in East Africa, but since mobile money is a telecom operators-led initiative, there are technical complexities in creating a unified infrastructure for businesses that need it. Typically , they would be required to use a bank account or card. It’s literally a no-brainer. PawaPay , a U.K.-based

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Examples include the 2008 breach of Société Générale , one of France’s largest banks, when an employee bypassed internal controls to make unauthorized trades, leading to billions of dollars lost. As AI usage spreads, data frequently moves between different infrastructures, making it harder to keep track of and protect.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

With serverless components, there is no need to manage infrastructure, and the inbuilt tracing, logging, monitoring and debugging make it easy to run these workloads in production and maintain service levels. Legacy infrastructure. Scalability. Maintaining and upgrading outdated systems can be resource-intensive and hinder innovation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

The startup is keeping things as vague as possible on its website and job listings with redacted graphics promising “consumer finance solutions for a changing web” and that they’re “building protocols and infrastructure,” doing something “at the intersection of fiat and crypto.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Nigeria’s Kuda raises $10M to be the mobile-first challenger bank for Africa. Startups building financial infrastructure got noticed. Just as Paystack and Flutterwave built payment infrastructure for thousands of African businesses, these fintech startups are trying to make their mark in the sweet spots of credit and banking. .

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Another expert in the conversation, Manoj Bhojwani, Global CIO at Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank shared his company’s strategic roadmap towards AI. “In “Building an initial foundation and identifying use cases where we can get value from the power of data is crucial.” In our 2025 strategy, Generative AI is one of the key pillars,” he revealed. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

CRV led the Series B round, which also included participation from Tencent, Silicon Valley Bank, Alkeon Capital Management, Soros Fund Management and a high-profile group of angel investors including NBA stars Kevin Durant and Andre Iguodala, Odell Beckham Jr. and The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

It makes sense as banks and insurance companies gather a ton of data and know a lot of information about their customers. A few startups have worked on products that can be integrated in existing banking infrastructure. They could use that data to train new models and roll out machine learning applications.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Power , a fintech infrastructure startup, is now kicking off its full-stack credit card issuance platform after a year in stealth mode and with $16.1 What makes Power different, according to Fernando, is that the company built its infrastructure from the ground up and doesn’t require third-party apps for card application or management.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

Neobanks transformed the customer experience of traditional banks by offering better digital products and lower costs. The reality is that many neobanks have customers with small average deposit balances, and deposits are critical to banking business models in the long term. Fintechs serving SMBs. What’s hot.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Once synonymous with a simple plastic credit card to a company at the forefront of digital payments, we’ve consistently pushed the boundaries of innovation while respecting tradition and our relationships with our merchants, banks, and customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

It focuses on large merchants and tries to make its product as customizable as possible so that you integrate it as an infrastructure partner in your product. And yet, the company needs a lot of money in its bank account to expand to more countries. The company’s fundraising story in particular is jaw-dropping.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Simultaneously, the monolithic IT organization was deconstructed into subgroups providing PC, cloud, infrastructure, security, and data services to the larger enterprise with associated solution leaders closely aligned to core business functions.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Plus, Europol offers best practices for banks to adopt quantum-resistant cryptography. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) called buffer overflow vulnerabilities unforgivable defects that put national and economic security at risk. This week, the U.S.

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