CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The rise of the cloud continues Global enterprise spend on cloud infrastructure and storage products for cloud deployments grew nearly 40% year-over-year in Q1 of 2024 to $33 billion, according to IDC estimates. As a result, the customer experience has vastly improved once Vibram began accepting all payment methods with main currencies. “For

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Open banking — a new approach to payments and other financial services that disrupts traditional card-based infrastructure by linking directly into banks — is having a moment. The sizable seed round from strong investors is due to a few factors. million to help it grow. million to help it grow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Community banks and credit unions aim to be the heart of the, well, communities, they serve. And not only are they competing with legacy players, there is also a slew of digital banks that have emerged in recent years, as well. How to fix) 5 common UX mistakes in online banking.

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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

APRIL 26, 2023

Within the last 18 months, the four-year-old startup worked on analyzing fraud data from global money networks, verification of mobile money financial statements and blocklist data from various banks and fintechs within the last 18 months. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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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

MARCH 22, 2022

We ended up with five term sheets, which was a validation during a time when we’re seeing more due diligence than we had previously and a more challenging fundraising environment,” Thazhmon told TechCrunch. “Then in the first two months of 2022, we brought in more revenue than the whole of 2021.”.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 30, 2025

You can reconcile bank statements against internal ledgers, get real-time visibility into financial operations, and much more. Consider this: when you sign in to a software system, a log is recorded to make sure theres an accurate record of activityessential for accountability and security.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

For years, Africa’s credit infrastructure has lagged behind the rest of the world due to low credit coverage from its bureaus. Per a World Bank report , only 11% of Africa’s population have their credit information recorded by private credit bureaus. And for those who are banked, only 17% have accessed loans. million).

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Ivanti

MARCH 12, 2025

Its common for organizations to use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) by default, to come to terms with the size and scope of vulnerabilities. Vulnerability scoring systems are tools used to determine the risk associated with software or system vulnerabilities. What is the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)?

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

I have a (slightly) quieter inbox, VCs appear to be applying more (or in some cases, some when there was little to none) due diligence and valuations are either flat or only inching upward rather than soaring — even dropping in some cases. billion before that deal fell apart in early 2021 due to regulatory concerns.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Dileep Thazhmon and Sherwin Gandhi founded Jeeves last year under the premise that startups have traditionally had to rely on financial infrastructure that is local and country-specific. We’re really building two things — an infrastructure layer that sits across banking institutions in different countries.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Aminu Bakori and Kabir Shittu , founders of Sudo Africa, told TechCrunch that the opportunity to build Sudo was due to a problem they faced while attempting to issue cards at their previous startup: a mobile wallet system allowed users to aggregate existing financial institutions into a single platform and perform transactions. “At

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

However, credit penetration in Mexico is low, less than 10% , due to lack of trust in the banking system, he added. There is huge adoption for it, but the roadblocks are the banks who have been super profitable, but have not democratized installment credit.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. Dozens of companies are using that software today, and Latitud’s goal is to make it the system of record for every VC-backed company in LatAm.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. With its $25 million Series B funding — which takes its total funding to over $42 million — Banyan Infrastructure is seeking to align sustainable project finance with the technology it is meant to support and develop.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In Nigeria, POS terminals are used to process card payments at retail locations as well as for agency banking purposes, a branchless banking system where agents act like human ATMs. This new capital will be deployed toward expanding its payment infrastructure, accelerating growth and growing its team, the company said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, wrote a letter to FDIC chairman Martin Gruenberg expressing concerns about Tellus’s claims. In that letter, Brown pressed the FDIC to review Tellus’s business practices “to ensure that customers are protected from financial fraud and abuse.” Well, last week U.S. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Developers of popular neobank apps, credit providers and personal finance tools use Belvo’s API to connect bank accounts to their apps to unlock the power of open banking. Instead, Belvo wants to build a finance API, which takes in more information than is normally collected by such systems.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This is expected to open up new borderless avenues for the lending institutions to sign up new members and help credit-unions shift away from tedious paper-based systems and the need for elaborate brick-and-mortar branches. Right from the start, we decided to give our clients something that they could use to become a bank.”. “I

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

I nvestors can run extremely lean operations with access to proprietary deal flow, automated deal filtering and on-demand experts to support due diligence, research and portfolio support. Joining the expert platform on Pariti, he began to review companies and provided feedback to other founders.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The company announced it had de-booked a $700 million order for AI equipment due to what was described by CEO Antonio Neri as a concern with a specific customer. During the call on Thursday, chief financial officer Marie Myers said that, while revenue from AI systems orders were in-line with expectations of an estimated $1.2

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Our SOC is dedicated to protecting our own employees and infrastructure, and is responsible for threat monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response, which safeguards thousands of users, hundreds of thousands of server endpoints, and a vast cloud and on-premise infrastructure, says Rajavel.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

To him, the lack of widespread participation in investing is an example of the rich getting richer as part of an infrastructure “that is built for the wealthy.” It averages 6,000 new customers a day, mostly due to word of mouth, the company said. In Mexico in particular, there are far fewer banks than the thousands the U.S.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Cyber attacks and data breaches can wreak havoc on a business’ IT systems, resulting in massive costs to fix the damage and a long-lasting impact on customers that could hamper a company’s growth for years to come. While it’s an EU policy with ramifications for EU businesses, the impact will undoubtedly affect businesses worldwide.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

And according to the company’s statement, they can do so “in 150 currencies and multiple payment modes including local and international cards, mobile wallets, bank transfers, Barter by Flutterwave.” Last year was a pivotal one for the five-year-old company. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

TechCrunch previously covered GradJoy, which sought to help students better manage their loan repayment plans through an app-based system.) “In May 2021, we started Method to provide developers with a turnkey infrastructure.” “In May 2021, we started Method to provide developers with a turnkey infrastructure.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. Location : Lagos, Nigeria.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 16, 2025

ZIRP was in full bloom, infrastructures were comparatively simpler (and thus cheaper), and a lot of people were pursuing a best of breed tooling strategy where they tried to pick the best tracing tool, best metrics tool, best APM, best RUM, etc., Precision tooling for complex systems is not cheap. Also: that was almost eight years ago.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

According to a report from the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy, 35 million people in the country lack basic healthcare access due to cost and lack of accessibility. Although the company does have large adoption in the industry, health companies can still establish their own electronic health record systems.

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Tenable

AUGUST 30, 2024

Meanwhile, check out the AI-usage risks threatening banks’ cyber resilience. And get the latest on AI-system inventories, the APT29 nation-state attacker and digital identity security! Enhancing disaster-recovery preparedness (60%) and infrastructure scalability and availability (58%) are high-ranking priorities.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The mandate to secure cloud environments comes via the Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 25-01 titled Implementing Secure Practices for Cloud Services from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). in 2022 and updated it in 2023 with more due diligence recommendations for employers to avoid falling for the scam.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

As organizations increasingly rely on cloud-based services and cybersecurity solutions to protect their digital assets, the incident serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities inherent in even the most robust systems. CIOs should plan accordingly by assessing business impacts, focusing on the most critical systems.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2022

The paper is a proposal to enable oversight of third parties providing critical services to the UK financial system. The proposal would grant authority to classify a third party as “critical” to the financial stability and welfare of the UK financial system, and then provide governance in order to minimize the potential systemic risk.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

It can be challenging to prove or navigate addresses in Africa due to poor addressing infrastructure. And for some countries like Nigeria, customers need to accurately provide their addresses to financial institutions such as banks and fintechs to set up bank and other accounts. Timbo Drayson founded the company in 2014.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Across industry verticals, healthcare and life science lead the way with 38% of companies having either integrated or transformative approaches to AI, followed by insurance and banking with 37% and 30% respectively. Having guardrails in place is key.

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