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Steps CIOs should take to protect customer data in Nigeria’s open banking systems

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Due to Nigeria’s fintech boom borne out of its open banking framework, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has published a much-awaited regulation draft to govern open banking procedures. For Emmanuel Morka, CIO at Access Bank Ghana, open banking is the future and enterprises should seize on the opportunity.

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Copilot: an indispensable tool for banking security teams

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The threat to banks from cyber crime is becoming increasingly complex, as state actors and criminal gangs become more adept at targeting vulnerabilities. A report by the Bank for International Settlements singled out the growth of cloud-based services and remote working as two of the primary drivers behind the heightened risk.

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CrowdStrike incident has CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies

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The widespread disruption caused by the recent CrowdStrike software glitch, which led to a global outage of Windows systems, has sent shockwaves through the IT community. Organizations and CISOs must review their cloud strategies, and the automatic updating of patches should be discouraged.

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SVB collapse forces African startups to rethink their banking options

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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week sent ripples in startup ecosystems around the world, and it is emerging that millions of dollars held by African startups and venture capital funds at the bank were at stake, until the U.S. Most of our funds are in various other banks in US & around the world. Nala, a U.K.-based

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Schools Suffer Heavy Downtime Losses Due To Ransomware, as Banks Grapple with AI Challenges

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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! The cost of ransomware downtime in schools gets pegged at $500K-plus per day. Plus, Uncle Sam is warning about a dangerous Iran-backed hacking group.

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It’s time to go paperless: are bank branches ready?

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When the chief banking officer of a $10.3B community bank visited a competing super-regional branch in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she noticed something troubling. Today’s rapidly rising rate environment is driving activity across the country’s 72,000 bank branches 2. Consider the following real-world scenarios. ●

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Nigerian fintech of the unbanked Bankly raises $2M led by Vault and Flutterwave

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Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria. In the absence of a banking system nearby or a disregard for one, the unbanked resort to these traditional systems because they work completely offline.

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