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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

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

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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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Varo Bank raises another $63M, led by NBA star Russell Westbrook

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Varo Bank , which last year became the first U.S. neobank to be granted a national bank charter, announced this morning it’s raised another $63 million in new funding. Existing Varo Bank investors include Warburg Pincus, The Rise Fund, Gallatin Point Capital, HarbourVest Partners and funds managed by BlackRock.

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

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With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. Elsewhere, private equity firms can use Sesamm for due diligence on potential acquisition or investment targets.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: U.S. Gov’t Unpacks AI Threat to Banks, as NCSC Urges OT Teams to Protect Cloud SCADA Systems

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Check out new guidance for banks on combating AI-boosted fraud. Plus, how to cut cyber risk when migrating SCADA systems to the cloud. Treasury Department has issued a report aimed at helping banks and other financial institutions address this emerging AI threat. Meanwhile, why CISA is fed up with SQLi flaws. And much more!