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Fintech startup Vise brings on Andrew Fong (formerly Dropbox) as CTO

TechCrunch

Vise , a fintech firm that focuses on helping financial advisors rather than automating them out of existence, has today announced that it is bringing on Andrew Fong as its chief technology officer. Fong hails from Dropbox, where he served as VP of Infrastructure Engineering.

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

TechCrunch

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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Nigerian restaurant management platform Orda gets $1.1M, wants to be the Toast of Africa

TechCrunch

As with most technologies, Africa is playing catch up in this food-tech segment. Other institutional investors include Techstars Boulder, Magic Fund, Hustle Fund, Norrsken Foundation, Microtraction, DFS Labs, Oxford Seed Fund, Enza Capital, Agrolay Advisors, and angel investors such as Buycoins’ Ire Aderinokun, Jesse Ovia and Ademola Adesina.

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

TechCrunch

“As software developers ourselves — working in health tech and fintech, where even minor bugs could have an outsized impact on people’s lives — we know firsthand how critical robust end-to-end testing is for all software businesses,” Perl said. ” QA Wolf promises a lot.

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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

TechCrunch

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. Fintech M&A hasn’t been as robust as one might expect in recent months. So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. Will Holland resign?

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Outsourcing Version 1: Advice from a CTO

GreenBar

But the skills needed to ace a corporate website are far different from those needed to build, say, a FinTech (financial technology) service. A technical audit of your software is the only step that requires a technical friend, advisor, or consultant (like me) who is not your contractor.

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Gloria Lin thinks construction needs to ‘catch the wave of fintech’

TechCrunch

But long before she worked in the technology industry, Lin was the daughter of the owner of a trade contracting business. In general, Lin — who got a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University — admits that she “loves building fintech infrastructure at scale.”