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

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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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The collaboration means the banking giant’s research analysts and institutional clients, including hedge funds, private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds, will have access to Lynk’s database of 840,000 experts around the world. Lynk’s technology uses machine learning algorithms to match clients with experts in its database.

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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 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

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

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 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

APRIL 21, 2021

But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. Okra likes to describe itself as an API “super-connector” that creates a secure portal and process to exchange real-time financial information between customers, applications and banks. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

MAY 8, 2023

These include legal obligations, for example Germany recently passed a new supply chain due diligence law that makes it the responsibility of large companies to track human rights violations and environmental risks through their supply chain. A similar directive is currently being proposed for the broader European Union (EU) too.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Then Yang joined Kaji at First Republic Bank to work together and continue the conversation. Due to the access issue between fund managers and potential investors, there are trillions of dollars sitting on the sidelines, he told TechCrunch. Jordan Nof, co-founder and managing partner at Tusk Ventures, agrees.

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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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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

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

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

AUGUST 30, 2022

Generation Z is stereotyped as being materialistic, mistrustful and extremely reliant on personal technology. Tech investors born after 1996 “have raised funds, garnered social media followings and profited from the Gen Z mentality,” says Andrew Chan, a senior associate at Builders VC.

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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. Understanding the company’s competitive position allows IT leaders to mindfully act to implement technology for competitive advantage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

In fact, the firm believes that Texas is going to be the second-largest tech ecosystem in the U.S. We’re constantly meeting entrepreneurs that are at the frontier of things because they’re running into technology issues that others don’t have,” Engineer added. Digging into the Alkami Technology IPO.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now, investors see New Zealand as a country with a track record of building companies with global exits in SaaS, health tech and deep tech. That said, the signs are all pointing to technology being New Zealand’s next export industry, as long as everyone keeps pushing in the same direction. billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021.

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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

MAY 19, 2022

I believed the platform I was running could be a lot bigger and scale a lot faster if we could connect more dots — and basically creating an end to end protein plant,” said Rehmann, who has worked for an investment bank and Microsoft. We run a tech-enabled platform and have scaled 2x faster than any other African fish company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Some seven years after selling his previous company to Google, Jacob Bank is preparing to launch his next project, this time with a focus on automating mundane, repetitive tasks. “We’re targeting organizations that are between 30 and 500 [workers] in size, and most of our early design partners are tech companies,” Bank said.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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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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. During that period, the volume of POS payments in the country also increased tremendously , hitting more than 500 billion as of May 2021.

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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. Vesta’s team understands the depth of the problem and is technically adept to solve it. Image Credits: Vesta.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

He has had a 20+-year career in enterprise technology, holding senior marketing roles at Facebook, Google, Cisco and several startups. While big numbers may draw splashy headlines, smaller rounds can still drive interest if the announcement is executed well and you can connect the news with some larger industry/technology/societal trend.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

Senator Sherrod Brown, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, 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.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to in the country. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. Tech investors must make sure that Israel is part of their portfolio.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The proliferation of smaller BNPL providers that don’t follow responsible lending best practices will slow down due to new regulatory barriers. But the right set of regulations will resolve this issue and ultimately provide an opportunity for banks to enter and become leaders in the BNPL arena.

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