TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. It will also double down on existing markets such as the U.K./Europe. Asked what the upside of the Wirecard acquisition was, the Railsbank founder says it helps maintain an orderly market in the U.K.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

Today’s consumers are accustomed to smooth, frictionless online shopping – and they increasingly expect the same kind of digital experiences from their banks. consumers use mobile banking channels, and 70% said mobile banking is now their primary way of accessing their accounts. “Most people do not want to go into a bank to do banking.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. Innovation continues to drive new developments in lending, payments, crypto and, in particular, infrastructure, showing that the industry still has lots of room for growth. Laura Spiekerman.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Treasury Prime co-founder and CEO Chris Dean believes that the best outcomes for consumers will result from traditional banks and fintechs working together. The banking-as-a-service startup has worked to build relationships with both banks and fintechs. As we had more fintechs, it became easier to add more banks.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Crypto custody and fintech infrastructure startup Prime Trust is positioning itself to do just that, and the company has just raised over $100 million in fresh funding to add new products to its existing suite, its CFO Rodrigo Vicuna told TechCrunch. Taking a step back, I think, has the macro market impacted the investment world?

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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. The infrastructure they are creating will be a core driver to automation and adoption in the industry.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. Make opening a bank account, storing money, receiving a payment card and lending money as easy as opening a social network account. The promise? In May 2022, Unit closed a $100 million round with a $1.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Ketch , a startup aiming to help businesses navigate the increasingly complex world of online privacy regulation and data compliance, is announcing that it has raised $23 million in Series A funding. “One of our customers turned off digital marketing completely in order to comply. ” Image Credits: Ketch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value — and include a range of outfits, from payments companies to digital banks to corporate spend players. It’s not as typical for us to hear, though, about venture capitalists pouring millions of dollars into a traditional bank.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

David is passionate about open-source and infrastructure software and previously worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley. Because the best go-to-market (GTM) strategies for startups are like hamburgers: The bottom bun: Bottom-up GTM. The hamburger go-to-market strategy. David Cahn. Contributor.

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Loan management simplified Large banks have tens of thousands of loan customers. This allows banks to minimise the risks associated with their loan accounts in a flexible, cost-effective way. In financial services , security and compliance are as important as reliability and responsiveness.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Financial infrastructure startup Fidel API has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. With this infrastructure, developers are able to create highly contextualized and event-driven user experiences at the point of purchase,” it claims. The vision and the path forward is really clear.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Amid the turbulence of AI, technologies are emerging rapidly, startups are clamoring for attention, and hyperscalers are scrambling to corral market share. Given existing relationships with Webster Bank, that includes AWS and Microsoft. A key focus of the bank’s AI team is likewise data quality.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

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.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2024

These include: lack of knowledge about legacy components and the overall architecture; no regular process for assessing the impact of production load on all components of the system; missing component-level load testing; absence of production-like infrastructure to simulate the behavior of the whole system under the production load.

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to market researchers at Gartner 1 , “Utilities are faced with unprecedented challenges.” ResearchandMarkets 1 estimates that the energy and power market spent 3.103 billion USD on AI in 2021. Unfortunately, utilities must cope with these emergencies with outdated infrastructure. Today, over 70% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

Lenders have to manage three big tailwinds in today’s market: Rising delinquency rates and charge-offs. Neobanks transformed the customer experience of traditional banks by offering better digital products and lower costs. Online lenders. Lending is going to be hit hard. Higher cost of capital for the debt they lend. What’s hot.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. So he started researching markets with large populations of Muslim people. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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Openxcell

AUGUST 7, 2023

Now, the banking and finance segments are witnessing a greater impact by integrating AI systems to improve the operation of bank apps and services. One of the key benefits of applying AI in banking and finance lies in optimizing the customer-centric experience and upgrading technological stability.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The pandemic has resulted in a shift in consumer behavior that now favors contactless and digital banking options, and with one in four U.S. Building infrastructure and providing top-notch cybersecurity is at the core of what we do, not the sideshow. It needs to be both effective and secure. This is where fintech can step in.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It is already at work in our business — preventing market interruptions, creating new kinds of intelligence for investors, and stopping financial criminals in their tracks,” Peterson says. billion in 2022, derives roughly 30% of its business from its markets, trading, and exchange business — and about 40% from software sales and licensing.

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Exadel

APRIL 27, 2023

RegTech offers innovative technologies that simplify and optimize compliance procedures in various ways. We will also talk about how RegTech solutions can help financial services to ensure regulatory compliance and what benefits they can get from it. The RegTech market is projected to soar to $57.5 billion in 2021 to $19.5

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

NetSuite is adding generative AI and a host of new features and applications to its cloud-based ERP suite in an effort to compete better with midmarket rivals including Epicor, IFS, Infor, and Zoho in multiple domains such as HR, supply chain, banking, finance, and sales. The ERP suite is available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Six months after securing a $23 million Series A round, Ketch , a startup providing online privacy regulation and data compliance, brought in an additional $20 million in A1 funding, this time led by Acrew Capital. Ketch raises $23M to automate privacy and data compliance. Image Credits: Ketch.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2022

The paper references the cloud concentration risk concerns raised by the Bank of England in previous research. At that time, over 65% of UK firms used the same four cloud providers for cloud infrastructure services. . Cloud concentration risk, system market risk—it goes by various names—is not a new topic.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to the World Bank , it is more expensive to send money to sub-Saharan Africa than to any region in the world. Wapi Pay , a Kenyan startup with offices in China and Singapore, is carrying out this play and has carved a market for itself by facilitating payments between both extreme remittance worlds of Africa and Asia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The business opportunity for remittance is lucrative despite digital lenders vying for less than 20% of the international money market dominated by traditional offline players. Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. Whether that’ll happen remains to be seen.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Marc Gilman is general counsel and VP of compliance at Theta Lake. As the world moved online, tools and infrastructure to help people manage their money and make payments have burgeoned the world over in the past decade. s FCA and Bank of England; the National Bank of Rwanda in Africa; as well as the ASIC, HKMA and MAS in Asia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

In turn, this has increased the market opportunity for startups, especially fintechs and e-commerce, which try to provide various solutions to meet the financial needs of the populace. The overarching feedback, Ogungbe said, was a setup involving an in-house compliance team and enacting thresholds on transactions.

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CIO

AUGUST 10, 2023

We also took the opportunity to see where he believes the demand for data sovereignty lies today and how he sees the market for sovereign cloud services evolving. Now Turkey’s largest cloud services and data center provider is working to bring enterprises throughout the country a new level of data protection and peace of mind.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Thirdfort has built tools first to address the needs of companies in the legal and property markets. “They need to run an in-depth level of due diligence, seeing bank statements what is moving in and out, asking clients specific questions, diligence checks on gifted money if the sum is specified as a gift.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. The company, based in South Africa, has raised $3 million in seed funding to scale outside Africa and build the infrastructure for the digital insurance economy.

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CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Banking as a Service (BaaS) is revolutionising the finance sector. It leverages the expertise and experience of trusted banks, such as Standard Chartered, so they can offer a wider range of services to existing and new customers. But to meet the needs and regulatory compliance of Bukalapak, that migration was brought forward.

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Openxcell

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

billion smartphone users worldwide, it’s imperative for banks and financial companies to develop products and services that can be easily accessed via mobile devices. During the past few years, mobile banking apps have grown in significance. Mobile banking app development: why should businesses invest in it? With over 6.9

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

David is passionate about open-source and infrastructure software and previously worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley. Many of today’s most successful software companies, from Atlassian and Datadog to Zoom, subscribe to the bottom-up SaaS go-to-market model.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

“For a bank, it means simplifying the process of opening commercial bank accounts. “When entrepreneurs start a business, they’ll need a bank account and credit card within weeks of forming the company. Companies can see their compliance status from Middesk’s dashboard.

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