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Private Investment in Africa is Exceeding Expectations in 2021, According to New AVCA Report

Fintech Staff Writer
by Fintech Staff Writer0
According to the 2021 H1 African Private Equity Data Tracker released by the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA), private investment in Africa is at an all-time high. Despite widespread decline felt by most economies across the globe, private equity fundraising in Africa has already managed to reach......
Banking Featured Guest Posts Insights

Why Has Open Banking Failed to Live up to Its Promise?

Elliott Limb
by Elliott Limb0
When open banking hit the market in 2018, a financial revolution was expected. The move to simply and securely promote information sharing between customers, banks, and third parties promised vast opportunities to grow profits, build innovative new solutions and create deeper customer connections. But this promise has failed to become......
Artificial Intelligence Featured

Leading Business Intelligence Tool ‘Sisense Fusion’ Drives Growth to $140 Million ARR for Businesses

Sudipto Ghosh
by Sudipto Ghosh0
Sisense Fusion platform drives growth to $140 million in annual recurring revenue, driven by 30% growth in strategic accounts Sisense, the leading AI-driven cloud platform for infusing analytics everywhere, today announced it has hired Paul Scholey as Vice President of International Sales and Kristina Agassi as General Counsel. The appointments......
Cryptocurrency DeFi Featured Fintech

WallStreetBets Launches Exchange-Traded Portfolio (ETP) Aimed at Risk Reduction

Sudipto Ghosh
by Sudipto Ghosh0
Regular people were actually making money by participating in the stock market — which isn’t how it’s supposed to work — so hedge funds were rescued when Robinhood, Webull, M1, and more restricted trading on meme stocks and brought prices down from the moon. Not since Flappy Bird’s creator deleted......
Banking Featured Finance

“Let Us Change the Narrative on Africa in the United States”, Pleads African Development Bank President

Fintech Staff Writer
by Fintech Staff Writer0
The African Development Bank President spoke during a meeting with African ambassadors at the chancery of the Embassy of the Republic of Congo in Washington last week. African Development Bank President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina has said that a concerted effort to change the narrative on Africa in the United......
Analytics Artificial Intelligence Featured Finance InsurTech News

Verisk AI Leverages Yelp Data to Help Insurers Underwrite Small Commercial Risk

Fintech Analyst
by Fintech Analyst0
Verisk’s artificial intelligence analyzes unstructured data and ratings in Yelp reviews to provide insurers with a more holistic assessment of businesses  The COVID-19 pandemic has led many small businesses to pivot or expand. As a result, new insurance coverage needs have emerged. To help insurers serve the changing marketplace, Verisk,......
Blockchain Featured Guest Posts

Blockchain and AI, A Perfect Match

Jonas Lundqvist
by Jonas Lundqvist0
The first blockchain appeared in 2008 as a new type of distributed database or ledger technology, which stores and manages files of information into groups of data called blocks, linked together to form a chain. As well as the data itself, each block contains an immutable record of exactly when......
Commerce Economy Featured Guest Posts Insights

Promoting Inclusive Financial Services to Build a Fully Connected, Digital World

Li Xianhui
by Li Xianhui0
Huawei aims to use connectivity technology to make inclusive financial services affordable and sustainable. Read this article to know how it makes this possible in the pandemic era.  As digital technologies, the Internet, and mobile communications become more integrated with the financial services industry, financial transaction modes and service models......
Banking Blockchain Cryptocurrency DeFi Featured Fintech

Fintech A Beginner’s Guide To Financial Technology

Hitesh Agrawal
by Hitesh Agrawal0
Each one of you might be a part of a game-changing finance experience when you pay for online shopping from a mobile device or receive money instantly in your bank account from an application. Traditional banking had many barriers of slow operating systems, waiting in long queues, and other similar......
Business Digital Featured InsurTech News

Latest Report: 91% Of Carriers Are Prioritizing the Use of Data and Analytic Technologies to Inform Decisions on Pricing

Fintech News Desk
by Fintech News Desk0
Commissioned by Equisoft as Part of a New Global Study, This North American Research Will Help Carriers to Plan, Prioritize and Make Investment Decisions on How to Unlock the Strategic Value of Their Data to Create New Opportunities for Growth, Process Optimization and Customer Experience Improvement. In a new report......
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