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The fintech space continues to be competitive and drama-filled

TechCrunch

Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s our job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. It becomes really complicated to set up all your financial systems on a country by country basis,” he added.

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Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services

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Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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Alloy raises $100M at a $1.35B valuation to help banks and fintechs fight fraud with its API-based platform

TechCrunch

Alloy, which has built an identity operating system for banks and fintechs, announced Thursday that it has raised $100 million at a $1.35 Alloy was founded primarily to fix a “broken” onboarding process that has historically involved manual review when people applied for bank accounts online. billion valuation.

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Method raises $16M to power loan repayment, balance transfers and more across fintech apps

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TechCrunch previously covered GradJoy, which sought to help students better manage their loan repayment plans through an app-based system.) Integrating student loans into the GradJoy app turned out to be a patchwork of brittle, insecure screen-scraping APIs, physical check mailing and compliance hurdles, according to Shah.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

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According to the survey, the city is strong in sectors such as fintech, agritech, hospitality tech, emerging tech, cybersecurity, SaaS and medtech. We’re strong in cybersecurity and (to an arguably lesser extent) fintech. Cybersecurity, fintech, digital — strong medtech — needs building. What are you most excited by?

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The future of data: A 5-pillar approach to modern data management

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Without this setup, there is a risk of building models that are too slow to respond to customers, exhibit training-serving skew over time and potentially harm customers due to lack of production model monitoring. If a model encounters an issue in production, it is better to return an error to customers rather than provide incorrect data.

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Ex-Uber software engineers raise $3M for Sperta, a 6-month-old startup that wants to help fintechs better manage fraud risk

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However, dispatch was one of Uber’s most critical systems, and it had a much bigger scale than previous use cases while having a very stringent latency requirement. . He then joined a credit card startup and realized that product also needed a rules engine to manage fraud, credit and compliance risks.

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