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Brick closes $8.5M seed to enable open finance across Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

Brick wants to simplify the process with a suite of APIs that connects financial apps to “hyper-local” sources of data, including banks, mobile wallets and telecoms. Tan was an early employee at Aspire, the neobank, while Malhotra was co-founder and CTO of Indian neobank Slice.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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Fintech Roundup: How going Fast and furious can ruin your startup

TechCrunch

One day later, on December 7, it was revealed that CTO Diane Yu was transitioning from her role as Chief Technology Officer – a position she had just assumed in January 2021 – into an advisory position. trillion (in assets) bank announced its plans to increase its annual technology budget to $12 billion , 26% more than it spent in 2020.”.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

I think this was a real benefit for Snowflake, since a lot of their early customers were banks who care about multi-cloud, but more generally it also expands the market size vs the reach of any cloud vendor. I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. I'm not so sure?

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Software Architect Role, Skills, and Impact on Product Success

Altexsoft

But the former is in charge of the code quality and technical risks, while the latter undertakes all the rest — namely, tasks associated with budget, scope, and time frames. The enterprise architect usually reports directly to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) or the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Source: C4 Model. Leadership.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. Gill Haus, CIO for Consumer & Community Banking, JP Morgan Chase. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One. Cloud delivery is part of the solution, but product-centric teams help build trust and continuity of expertise.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. No innovation lasts forever, says author and business advisor Geoffrey Moore. One Canadian bank applied this thinking to bounced checks. Innovate constantly.