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Onboarding and automation: What fintechs can learn from big banks

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Michael Beckley Contributor Share on Twitter Michael Beckley is a co-founder and CTO of Appian , where he drives the technical vision for the company, leads product and solutions marketing teams, and oversees customer initiatives. This creates increased regulatory scrutiny, with the risk of massive fines for non-compliance.

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Tanzanian fintech NALA raises $10M seed to build Revolut for Africa

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to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. 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. and the U.K.

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Stitch emerges from stealth with $4M for its API fintech play in Africa

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Over the years, there has been a growing trend of fintech infrastructure players around the world. Stitch , a South African fintech startup, is one of them and today, it is coming out of stealth and announcing its seed round of $4 million. This makes it the largest round raised by any API fintech startup in Africa at the moment.

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Alloy, Synctera and Unit discuss the future of embedded finance at TC Disrupt

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Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. In a session called “Making Money Move with Embedded Finance,” our panel will talk about how a new breed of finance infrastructure companies have the potential to turn any company into a fintech company. The promise?

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#740 Doing Tremendous Things by Putting People First with Ed McLaughlin, President & CTO at Mastercard

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Today we’re talking to Ed McLaughlin, President & Chief Technology Officer, Mastercard. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! In this role, I oversee all the company’s technology functions. For more about MasterCard, check out their website here. Have feedback about the show?

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Nigerian YC-backed startup Anchor comes out of stealth with $1M+ to scale its banking-as-a-service platform

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In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. The situation is no different in Africa.

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VertoFX picks up $10M for cross-border payments play in emerging markets

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Quona Capital , an emerging fintech-focused venture capital firm, led the round. The case is particularly problematic in emerging markets like Africa, where local currencies are less liquid than those in developed markets. . based Nigerians took an emerging markets approach. And instead of focusing on Africa, the two U.K.-based

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