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. By staying ahead of market trends, the organization remains agile, adaptable, and ready to outperform rivals.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Scotts Valley, California-based company is using cloud technology and the Ethereum blockchain as the engine for its Paystand Bank Network that enables business-to-business payments with zero fees. The company said it will use the new funding to continue to grow the business by investing in open infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. It has now raised €175 million in total.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

There’s no shortage of digital banks in Nigeria and, in general, in Africa. As the region continues to experience rapid growth in mobile usage and the corresponding growing young population, these fintechs think this is the right time to provide financial services to every market category, from the banked to the unbanked.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Like other data-rich industries, banking, capital markets, insurance and payments firms are lucrative targets with high-value information. To discuss these and other security issues faced in this market, David Moulton, director of content marketing for Cortex and Unit 42, chatted with a few Palo Alto Networks experts.

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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. Arjun Thyagarajan, co-founder and CEO at Solid, told TechCrunch that the company spent the last 18 months working with early customers on product-market fit.

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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. million seed round. million seed round. So far, over 1.2 So far, over 1.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

BNY and Silicon Valley Bank are also participating in today’s funding round. Instead, it sells its products to banks, fintech startups and other financial institutions. That’s why over-the-counter trading desks and market makers also use Fireblocks to settle trades across several exchanges.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round, San Francisco- and Africa-based fintech Pngme has snapped up another $15 million for its financial data infrastructure play. Right now, Pngme has three core products for clients in these three markets. And every fintech or bank wants to provide that same data-driven user experience.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

The fintech’s new growth strategy follows its plan to power its embedded finance offering beyond its current markets, including Uganda and Ghana, to bridge the financing gap affecting millions of micro, small medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across these markets. Image Credits: Pezesha.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

David is passionate about open-source and infrastructure software and previously worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley. Because the best go-to-market (GTM) strategies for startups are like hamburgers: The bottom bun: Bottom-up GTM. The hamburger go-to-market strategy. David Cahn. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

that creates digital banks in emerging markets, confirmed to TechCrunch today that it has raised $7.4 Digital banks, neobanks, challenger banks or whatever you may call them, are among the biggest recipients of VC investments in fintech. In November 2021, Fintech Farm launched in its first market, Azerbaijan.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Unit, a banking-as-a-service startup, has closed on a $100 million Series C round of funding led by Insight Partners. The pair spent the first year stealthily building out the technology with the mission of giving companies a way to embed financial services into their product, accelerating their time to market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. MAX’s commercial bank partners now extend vehicle purchase loans to drivers, using data provided by the mobility company in credit risk assessment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. The new company is akin to Amplify in terms of infrastructural play; however, it provides financial features instead of payment ones.

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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. Chief Marketing Officer, recently engaged in an extensive discussion on exactly how photonics technology could help meet the power demands of AI.

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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 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. Innovation continues to drive new developments in lending, payments, crypto and, in particular, infrastructure, showing that the industry still has lots of room for growth. Laura Spiekerman.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

In an effort to make it simpler, faster and cheaper, a pair of former Blend employees have teamed up to build mortgage loan origination software that will connect banks, credit unions, mortgage bankers and brokers. The infrastructure they are creating will be a core driver to automation and adoption in the industry.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Crypto added fuel to this trend and quickly became a mass-market asset category. However, there is a problem in alternative assets: the lack of digital infrastructure. Modernizing the infrastructure for traditional alts. The alternative asset class needs new infrastructure — who will build it?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

How does a business stand out in a competitive market with AI? Keeping Data Governance at the Core of Effective AI Data falling into the wrong hands should be a concern of any business—regardless of size or status in the market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In the region, less than 25% of adults have bank accounts as the focus for banks remains the top 10-20% wealthiest customers. The rest, which is a huge segment of the market of about 100 million people, is not perceived as profitable. But as banks slacked, mobile money from the region’s telcos filled in the gap.

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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. The company is led by CEO Nikolai Barnwell , betPawa’s former head of New Markets, Africa. It’s literally a no-brainer.

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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. Back then, Mastercard had around 3,500 employees and a $4 billion market cap.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Automation Anywhere, one of the best-funded RPA providers with over $1 billion capital raised to date, went the debt route this week, securing a $200 million loan from Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Capital and Hercules Capital. Gartner predicts that while the RPA market will reach $2.9 Is the RPA market in trouble? Assuming the $2.9

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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 12, 2021

However , they seem to be doing quite well compared with traditional banks that face challenges like legacy cost structures and a major lack of operational efficiency. It is one of the few companies that builds proprietary solutions for these financial institutions and their banking and payments services.

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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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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 10, 2022

Airwallex , the Hong Kong/Australia startup that provides cross-border banking and other financial services for businesses, has raised $100 million, money that it will be using to continue expanding its business operationally, geographically and with new products in areas like credit and expense management — and for M&A. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. per the 2020 report of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). and the U.K., and the U.K., While the 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

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. billion by 2032.

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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

APRIL 25, 2022

study suggests that while sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to increase (even triple) its agricultural output and overall contribution to the economy, the sector remains untapped largely due to lack of access to quality farm inputs, up to par infrastructure like warehousing and market. A McKinsey and Co. million ($6.4m

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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. The company will also hire additional employees, develop new distribution channels and invest in go-to-market.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Migration to the cloud, data valorization, and development of e-commerce are areas where rubber sole manufacturer Vibram has transformed its business as it opens up to new markets. We’re in publishing, but it’s the accompanying services that differentiate us on the market; the technology component is what gives value to our business.”

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