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In Fintech, Real Scale Is About Activating Eligible Customers
Ahmed Shafik is the co-founder of Venn, a business banking platform for over 15,000 Canadian companies. When we started our business banking platform, my co-founder and I assumed scale would be an engineering story. We had both come from a…
How Fintech Leaders Can Make AI Decisions Defensible
Taras Tymoshchuk is the founder and CEO of Geniusee. A 2025 World Economic Forum and Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance survey of 240 fintech firms across six regions found that 80% were implementing AI across multiple business…
RBI Data Governance: Banks, NBFCs Reset Fintech Partnership Terms Amid DPDP Act Compliance
Indian banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) are embarking on a significant restructuring of their partnerships with fintech firms, driven by the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) new data governance framework and the stringent compliance…
FinTechs Bet on AI and Lending to Drive Modernization
The pattern is visible in results and management commentary from Jack Henry, FIS and nCino. Jack Henry reported bundled core, digital and card wins and higher faster payments adoption. FIS reported continued growth across banking and payments, as…
Fintech firm Paramotor Digital Technology secures SEBI nod for IPO
Fintech and enterprise technology firm Paramotor Digital Technology Ltd has secured approval from SEBI to float an initial public offering (IPO), an update with the markets regulator showed on Thursday. The company, which confidentially filed draft…
I gave up on getting an H-1B visa because of the $100k fee. I'm optimistic about my future outside the US.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Shreya Mishra Reddy, 34, an Indian national currently staying in Toronto on a tourist visa. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I moved to the US from India to do my master's…
Editorial | HKEX's role crucial as Hong Kong helps build future of global finance
The latest record-high profit results from the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) are more than just a fiscal milestone, they signal a market resurgence. Technological and financial trends on the mainland are aligning with those of the city.
India To Initiate Negotiations on Bilateral Investment Treaty with Canada; Aims for Rs 4.65 Lakh Cr Trade by 2030
New Delhi: India has expressed its readiness to initiate negotiations on a Bilateral Investment Treaty with Canada at the earliest, as Finance Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Francois-Philippe Champagne concluded the inaugural Canada-India Finance…
Socure Secures $156M at $5.2B Valuation, Acquires AI Fraud Investigation Startup Fravity
Identity verification and fraud prevention company Socure announced Thursday that it raised $156 million in a strategic growth investment valuing it at $5.2 billion. The Incline Village, Nevada-based company is also acquiring Austin-based agentic…
The Biggest AI Bottleneck Is Your Infrastructure
The gulf between enterprise AI spending and adoption is expanding. At the same time, an emerging trend is driving AI pricing. It's one we've seen play out before with chips and storage: capacity is up, costs are going down. With cheaper AI, there's…
Financial services sector welcomes government plan to add 9,000 jobs
In the new Ireland for Finance Strategy 2026-2030, the government has pledged to create 9,000 new financial services jobs over the next four years. Of the 70,000 international financial services jobs to be located in Ireland, the government expects…
Nubank's (NU) First Billion-Dollar Quarter Comes With New Questions
On August 13, Nu Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: NU) reported second-quarter results built around a number the digital bank had never posted before: $1.1 billion in net income, up 49% year over year and 17% from the first quarter. The company also crossed 139…
Red Ribbon Communications wins Cloudera's South African PR account after competitive pitch
Ronelle Bester, founder of Red Ribbon Communications. (Image: AI-enhanced) Red Ribbon Communications has won the South African public relations mandate for Cloudera, which positions itself as the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, following…
Why Engineering Judgment Matters In Modern C++ Code Reviews
Ajay Pandey is the director of technology development at a prominent fintech company. One of the best engineering practices I experienced in my career has nothing to do with learning a particular technology, framework or language. It's code review.
NSE IPO Approval Imminent: Sebi Chairman Discusses Market Resilience, Tech Risks
The National Stock Exchange's highly anticipated initial public offering is reportedly nearing approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), as the regulator simultaneously focuses on bolstering market resilience against evolving…
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