CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Traditional security approaches have become unsustainable for technology leaders navigating todays complex threat landscape. 2025 Banking Regulatory Outlook, Deloitte The stakes are clear. Security in requirements review Conversation starter : How do we ensure security is considered from the very beginning?

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Set for Tuesday 19 November, the CIO100 ASEAN Awards event will bring together the top senior technology executives and teams in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong driving innovation and influencing rapid change. All nominations have been reviewed by a select and independent judging panel comprising CIO.com editors and industry analysts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. A construction tech boom. Technology startups are emerging to help solve these problems.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

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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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Over just the last year or so, we’ve seen: In February 2020, LendingClub announced plans to acquire Radius Bank in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $185 million. million in a deal that was designed to accelerate its acquisition of a national bank charter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If you recall, we released a year in review in January 2020 before we released the fiscal year of 2019 report,” he told TechCrunch. The company’s year on review, on the other hand, highlights payments processed, customer base, loans disbursed, and investments made on the platform. . billion (~$241.35 Image Credits: Carbon.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Shares of First Republic Bank fell sharply in early trading this morning, which caused trades of the company to be paused due to volatility, implying investor discomfort with the financial institution despite government activity over the weekend to sort the Silicon Valley Bank crisis and potential cascading effects.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2025

Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1] AI in action The benefits of this approach are clear to see.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

It’s Kyle again, Greg’s stand-in for Week in Review. (He’ll If you’re a WiR newbie, it’s the newsletter where we recap the past five days in tech news. most read Silicon Valley Bank implodes: Silicon Valley Bank Financial, the publicly traded holding firm of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), is in crisis.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tech isn’t as collegial as it used to be. VCs want to fund the newest tech mafia startups before banks do , top MBA programs want laid off workers to join so badly that they’re waiving standardized test score requirements , and the tech companies that are in a position to hire really want you to know it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. Telecoms and banks lead the majority of online financial transactions carried out in the region via mobile money wallets and bank accounts. It doesn’t aim to replace mobile money or banks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. It is also poised for greater growth as the adoption of lending, digital payments, banking and insurance services grows. . Deals by stage in Africa over the years. Image Credits: Briter Bridges.

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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 million seed round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

If this fintech play reminds you of Silicon Valley Bank, think again. Another example is Market Finance, a tech-enabled SME lender in the U.K., These are tech companies backed by VCs but they also need financial partners due to their capital-intensive businesses in order to do this.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Terraa , a Moroccan B2B tech-enabled food distribution platform, has raised $1.5 Morocco is our priority at the moment, and we are building the playbook in terms of operations, building our tech and expanding in cities. They work out of habits, and don’t use any best practices in terms of operations or technology.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Fined : Manish also writes about India’s central bank, which fined Amazon’s payments unit over $370,000, claiming the company was noncompliant with certain know-your-customer guidelines. wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code, Paul reports. Big Tech Inc. Tim Stevens has more.

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Imagine navigating a rapidly changing landscape, where technology seems to evolve at the speed of light and the pressure to keep up is relentless — this is the reality for today’s CIO. Future proofing technology investments has become a critical imperative for organizations seeking to maintain their competitive edge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

99 Twitter problems, and Apple might have one : It’s no secret that Elon Musk thinks Apple’s 30% IAP (“inventor assistance program” to those of us not up on tech lingo) transaction charge to developers is “a lot.” OTI raises $55 million for technology to remove screen obstructions. Big Tech Inc. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For banks, data-driven decisions based on rich customer insight can drive personalized and engaging experiences and provide opportunities to find efficiencies and reduce costs. Organizations must ensure their technology stack can handle immense data flow. In today’s business landscape, data volumes can explode rapidly.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

As of late Thursday night and Friday morning, the fallout from the shutdown of Silicon Valley Bank in the US had reached the shores of the UK and Europe. Yesterday afternoon, the Bank of England sought a court order to place Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited — the UK arm of the US institution — into an insolvency procedure.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. Would you say you are conducting more due diligence? This helps us with diligence, as we work to understand the market before we make any investments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Artifact , the new personalized news app from Instagram’s co-founders , is another startup whose funding was caught up in the Silicon Valley Bank failure, and co-founder Kevin Systrom believes there could be more trouble to come for Silicon Valley. “And that creates problems in the long run.”

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CIO

APRIL 7, 2023

Tech salaries are on the rise thanks to a demand for talent across nearly every industry. between 2021 and 2022, reaching an average tech salary of $111,348 per year, according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. But you don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to earn a high-tech salary. Salaries increased 2.3% Tampa, Fla.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

He considers Flippa to be “the investment bank for the 99%,” of small businesses, providing an end-to end platform that includes a proprietary valuation product for businesses — processing over 4,000 valuations each month — and a matching algorithm to connect with qualified buyers.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

JP Morgan Chase president Daniel Pinto says the bank expects to see up to $2 billion in value from its AI use cases, up from a $1.5 Sometimes it actually creates more work than it saves due to legal and compliance issues, hallucinations, and other issues. But adopting the technology is helping the company move forward, she says.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

As reported by Life Insurance International: “Level has created a tech-driven underwriting process for early-stage fintech startups that is claimed to have brought new efficiency and speed to the debt-raising process. He told me: “The question I have is who will capitalize on this bear market to scoop up valuable technology or talent.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Startups like FlexID remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including offering trusted records of identities without the need for a centralized authority. More than 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa are unbanked, according to World Bank estimates for 2021. million in 2016. million in 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Tabor explained that the e-commerce landscape in Latin America was consolidated, meaning few banks controlled more of the market. That process involves manual analysis and constant adjusting due to fraud. In the U.S., In the U.S., Instead, merchants in Latam have to tap into other organizations that have that data.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

According to research, 85% of African SMBs have zero access to financing, and e ach day, African SMBs have billions locked up in receivables due to long payment cycles. For existing businesses, these are the issues they face and getting credit in terms of working capital is extremely difficult if you’re dealing with banks. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

GV (formerly Google Ventures) led the round, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures (led by partner Jan Hammer), Credo Ventures (led by Ondrej Bartos and Vladislav Jez) and Seedcamp, plus several unnamed angel investors specializing in financial technology and security.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Meanwhile, Matt reviews the 2023 Mac Mini , what he calls “a serious contender with the M2 Pro. Sounds like more layoffs : Another tech company reveals that its eyes were bigger than its stomach when it comes to hiring. Big Tech Inc. Did you know that TechCrunch has a bunch of amazing newsletters that aren’t this one?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Globally, banking funding slid by 63%, or nearly two-thirds, according to CB Insights. In all of 2022, banking startups raised $9.4 There were so many challenger banks born in recent years, it is not surprising that that segment became oversaturated. Wealth tech companies brought in $1.7 billion across 299 deals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

investment giant Carlyle Group , French corporate and investment bank Natixis , Japanese multinational insurance holding company Tokio Marine , and U.K.-based Elsewhere, private equity firms can use Sesamm for due diligence on potential acquisition or investment targets. based asset management firm Unigestion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There are some 40 million Mexicans who are excluded from certain financial products due to banks not thinking it is a segment worth going after, but Filiberto Castro does. The former banking executive worked at banks including Citi and Scotiabank for nearly a decade before moving into the fintech space to be chief of growth at Konfio.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

NTT DATA’s landmark Global GenAI Report underscores how the technology is gaining momentum. Furthermore, nearly two-thirds of C-suite respondents, specifically, expect GenAI to be a game changer over the next two years and plan to invest significantly in the technology. There is no going back.

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