TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

The last five years have seen a plethora of fintech applications in Nigeria (and Africa, in general) grow at an astonishing rate. If anything one can learn from the Nigerian fintech ecosystem over the past two years is that with growth comes regulatory scrutiny. Image Credits: Okra.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 26, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. We saw fewer layoffs, but also less fintech-related news in general. Some observations, though.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. The big events in the fintech world over the last week felt like a very different vibe from 2021, which was filled with mega rounds, celebrations and lofty valuations. And former employees admit that the underlying technology the business built is actually good.

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Modern CTO

APRIL 11, 2024

Chris shares the lessons he learned from leading under 8 different CTOs, the ways in which the construction industry is evolving through technology, and how to transform product development in your organization. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! Have feedback about the show? Let us know here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round, San Francisco- and Africa-based fintech Pngme has snapped up another $15 million for its financial data infrastructure play. Pngme’s platform caters to fintechs and other financial institutions across sub-Saharan Africa. “It’s a highly data-driven user experience.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B , fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 Financial technology companies raising multiple rounds in a short period of time has become more the norm than an exception as of late.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Andy Bromberg, CEO of the a16z-backed startup Eco, is claiming that Pebble , another fintech startup that came out of stealth this morning, “plagiarized” Eco’s materials and business model. Bromberg posted a Twitter thread this afternoon saying Pebble engaged in “copy-and-pasting, immaturity, lying, and espionage.”

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Modern CTO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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. About MasterCard Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

At the time, he was working for Andy Carra, who served as that company’s CTO before going on to co-found SoFi. It was Salisbury’s first foray into fintech, and high on the excitement of getting a new product live in a highly regulated industry, he admittedly got bit by the fintech bug. I wanted to meet these people.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. So you can imagine the excitement that the fintech nerd in me felt this week as I reported about how not one, but two of the aforementioned players were involved in the funding round of a new startup, Pluto, that has emerged in the corporate spend space and is focused on the Middle East.

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CIO

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Gary Jeter, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer at TruStone Financial Credit Union, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. Watch the episode: Listen to the episode: CIO Leadership Live.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

The fintech went public in 2021, and while it’s trading considerably lower than its 52-week-high (which stock isn’t?), The second pillar for us is building modern technology that enables us to do this. Ukraine-born Levchin started Affirm in January 2012. Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

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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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Motto plans to use its new capital in part to hire more than 50 senior engineers, as well as a chief technology officer (CTO), adding to its current headcount of 400. My weekly fintech newsletter, The Interchange, launched on May 1! Investors show Latin American fintech startups the money.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bfree , a Nigerian credit management fintech, has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 In preparation for its next stage of growth, Bfree has secured the services of leading industry professionals, including CTO Konrad Pawlus, formerly of SALESmanago, and Yohan Theatre, who previously worked at investment management firm PIMCO.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline , a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. Muliro has also been appointed as HotelOnline’s chief technology officer.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

The company’s founding team also includes Kevin O’Brien, former chief technology officer of non-profit lending platform Kiva, and Thomas Schumacher, who co-founded emerging market microloan platform Tala. BNPL in 2022: 4 fintech investors discuss regulation, trends and how to stand out.

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

So business technology leaders in financial services are carefully navigating a path toward AI. AI dominates discourse and headlines, but financial services technology leaders know there’s a lot of substance amid the noise. We’re seeing how fast this technology is maturing, so it’ll have a very different hype cycle.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. Check out our previous interview with the company’s CTO here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

The startup sells software to fintechs and others, allowing customers to create loan programs and service the resulting products. This morning, however, I want to riff a bit on the future of fintech and how the financial tech stack of the future may be built. He has an interesting take on where fintech is headed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The three co-founders of alternative financing startup Pipe are stepping down from their roles as executives of the company in one of the most dramatic management shake-ups seen in the fintech startup world in some time. CTO and co-founder Zain Allarakhia will remain on the board and serve as a senior advisor to the company.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Moreover, only 11% of finance executives say their organization has modernized systems to the point where they can easily incorporate new digital technologies, according to Deloitte. Amount recently raised $99 million at an over $1 billion valuation for its suite aimed at helping banks better compete with fintech companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This adds up to a total of $205 million in equity and debt financing, which the New York-based fintech plans to primarily use to invest in technology and build “more expansive products to continue to cover the entirety of corporate spend and cash management,” its CEO Everett Cook told TechCrunch. .” was close to $1.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Nano Technologies, a startup that lets workers in Vietnam access their earned wages immediately through an app called VUI , has raised $3 million in seed funding. GajiGesa, a fintech focused on Indonesian workers, adds strategic investors and launches new app for micro-SMEs.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road. But early returns indicate the technology can provide benefits for the process of creating and enhancing applications, with caveats.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But this means fintechs need access to large amounts of data that they can use to verify customer identity, creditworthiness or aggregate information from online accounts. Tan was an early employee at Aspire, the neobank, while Malhotra was co-founder and CTO of Indian neobank Slice.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Chief executive officer Tobias Fischer was former regional lending program manager at Grab Financial Services Asia, while chief technology officer Sasanadi Rukua served as vice president of engineering at Tokopedia.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Sanlo , a San Francisco-based fintech startup that offers small to medium-sized game and app companies access to tools to manage their finances and capital to fuel their growth, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Konvoy. “We’re a technology company, not a fund,” Caliujnaia said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And what’s more surprising is that the buy is outside payments or fintech. We [the founders] decided to shut down the company because we ran out of resources to continue driving the very valid vision we had,” ex-CTO Oyemade told TechCrunch in an email. Disha was founded by Evans Akanno, Rufus Oyemade and Blessing Abeng in 2019.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Fintech startup Ratio secured $411 million in equity and debt funding to continue developing what it calls “a new flavor” of buy now, pay later that combines payments, predictive pricing, financing and a quote-to-cash process. trillion subscription market for recurring revenue. trillion subscription market for recurring revenue.

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CIO

JUNE 16, 2023

It has also increased top-line revenue by enabling MoneyGram to execute far more transactions in the 200 nations it serves — exceeding the volume of business its infrastructure could handle in the past, says CTO Joe Vaughan. “We We were able to ramp up on the technology side.” We’ve had our highest volumes ever in the 4th quarter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The financing is yet another example of the rapid succession of funding rounds in the blockchain infrastructure space – and fintech space in general. We started Tenderly as four engineers hyperfocusing on a particular technology, which was blockchain and ethereum,” said Bencic. . My weekly fintech newsletter is launching soon!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s our job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. On Friday, PitchBook’s Q1 2023 B2B fintech investment report showed that investment into enterprise fintech was $11.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Truora participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 cohort and soon after expanded into digital identity and authentication technologies. Today, Truora describes itself as a SaaS startup that builds authentication and communication tools for Latin American startups, marketplaces, fintechs and banks. That March, it raised $3.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Building wealth is a long process and can be complex, but Farther is bringing both technology and advisors to the table to make these kinds of services more accessible. Meanwhile, Genser, CTO, is a military veteran who previously worked at Goldman Sachs leading an artificial intelligence team in private wealth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

More than 3,700 startups from 92 countries applied to compete in one of these categories: Agtech, Food & Water, Cleantech & Energy, Edtech, Enabling Tech, Fintech, Healthtech and Mobility & Smart Cities. Hillridge Technology , Genetika+ and Fotokite. Can technology help this massive — and growing — issue?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

As the region continues to experience rapid growth in mobile usage and the corresponding growing young population, these fintechs think this is the right time to provide financial services to every market category, from the banked to the unbanked. The news comes almost two years since the fintech raised a seed round of $2 million.

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