Investment

Paypal invests in a B2B data privacy company 

Mine, a pioneering company disrupting the data privacy market, has announced that it has raised US$30 million in Series B funding, co-led by Battery Ventures and PayPal Ventures, with significant investments from Nationwide Ventures and with the...

CFA Institute joins as founding member of the new Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment 

CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, has announced its role as a founding member of the Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI), a new global initiative that aims to provide quality learning programmes,...

Providing digital and affordable financial solutions to East African farmers

Bram van den Bosch, Co-founder and CEO of Emata, a company dedicated to providing digital and affordable financial solutions to East African farmers, shares the remarkable journey of the organisation, from its inception to a recent successful seed fund...

Get To Know: Paul Scott, CTO, Matrix Booking 

Paul Scott, CTO, Matrix Booking, speaks to us about his company, current major areas of investment within the industry and his most memorable achievement.   Can you tell us about your current position?  I’ve been the Chief...

The transformative power of Blockchain in real estate

Jean-Marc Jacobson, Co-CEO and Co-founder of RealT, a platform that democratises realty investment opportunities through tokenising properties, discusses the transformative power of Blockchain in real estate. As Blockchain becomes as ubiquitous as email,...

Five top tips to recession-proof your company 

Gill McAteer, Director of Employment Law at Citation, speaks to us about the five ways businesses can prepare for a recession and minimise the damage it may cause.   Recession is a word that guarantees to send shivers down the spine of...

MSCI and Google Cloud to build a secure global investment data platform in the cloud 

MSCI has announced a strategic alliance with Google Cloud to build a cloud-native investment data acquisition and development platform, aimed at delivering data, insights and solutions to power better and faster investment decision-making.  Built...

Purpl launches digital wallet on Mambu

Purpl, a remittance and cash-out aggregator, has announced its successful go-live on Mambu’s cloud-native banking platform. Having secured its digital wallet licence, Purpl’s new offering will provide Lebanese citizens at home and abroad with...

JSE launches Flagship Investment Challenge

Virtual trading floors for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) flagship financial literacy programme – the JSE Investment Challenge – have officially opened as the competition marks a 50-year milestone.  Designed to highlight the...

Will women take over the financial markets?

For years, a woman operating in the financial markets was someone unique. However, recently there has been a dynamic change and women investors are increasing year by year. XTB Group tells us more. The last three years have been a time when financial...

How TCS is investing in innovation 

Sumanta Roy, Vice President & Head of Middle East Africa, TCS, speaks to Intelligent Fin.tech about the banking and financial industry in the Middle East, how TCS has impacted it, industry requirements in the Middle East and how businesses in this...

Tech stocks remain under pressure, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel 

Marc Deschamps, Co-head, DAI Magister, speaks to us about tech stocks, arguing although the immediate future inevitably looks less bright for the tech sector, it’s by no means doom and gloom, and what investors should look forward to.  ...