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Credable, a digital banking infra startup that wants to build Unit for emerging markets, gets funding

TechCrunch

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. million seed round. million seed round. So far, over 1.2 So far, over 1.2

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SVB collapse forces African startups to rethink their banking options

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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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Nigerian fintech of the unbanked Bankly raises $2M led by Vault and Flutterwave

TechCrunch

Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria. In the absence of a banking system nearby or a disregard for one, the unbanked resort to these traditional systems because they work completely offline.

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It’s time to go paperless: are bank branches ready?

CIO

When the chief banking officer of a $10.3B community bank visited a competing super-regional branch in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she noticed something troubling. Today’s rapidly rising rate environment is driving activity across the country’s 72,000 bank branches 2. Consider the following real-world scenarios. ●

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

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investment giant Carlyle Group , French corporate and investment bank Natixis , Japanese multinational insurance holding company Tokio Marine , and U.K.-based Companies can access Sesamm’s flagship product, TextReveal , via several conduits, including an API that brings Sesamm’s NLP engine into their own systems.

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Apple enters the BNPL market as regulation, competition intensify

TechCrunch

In the mix were anticipated improvements to its various operating systems and computers — and plans to expand its fintech footprint. However, while it’s earned a market footprint of sufficient scale as to matter in the consumer financial technology market, it’s not considered a fintech company per se.

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Vyne raises $15.5M seed round to grow its merchant-focused open banking solutions

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Open banking — a new approach to payments and other financial services that disrupts traditional card-based infrastructure by linking directly into banks — is having a moment. The sizable seed round from strong investors is due to a few factors. million to help it grow. million to help it grow.

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