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Madrona backs WaFd Bank spinout developing consumer software for regional banks

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(Archway Photo) Key Takeaways Archway , spun out of Washington Federal (WaFd), provides digital banking infrastructure to regional banks. The Seattle-area startup raised $15 million in a round co-led by WaFd Bank and Madrona Venture Group. The goal is to help community banks stay competitive with giants like J.P

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Remitly reports $458M in 2021 revenue, up 78%, as remittance company suspends service in Russia

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EU, and other allies this week cut Russian banks off from Swift , an international payment communication system that helps facilitate transactions. Remitly earlier this week hired former Google and Microsoft leader Ankur Sinha as its chief technology officer. Its stock has fallen nearly 80% since the IPO.

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Data Analytics 2014: Jeff Jonas and the Advantages of More Data

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While the initial stages of completing a puzzle are slow-going, the final pieces are easily placed because the puzzle’s colors and images can be seen; in a similar way, identifying false bank accounts or potential terrorists becomes easier with more email accounts, more phone records, more background information, more geospatial data, etc.

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Tech Moves: Expedia and F5 Networks add board members; Madrona principal departs; and more

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Buse previously served as co-CEO and CEO of Monitise, a global mobile banking and payments company, from 2014 to 2015. Former Rover and Cheezburger CTO Scott Porad is now vice president of engineering at Seattle virtual healthcare startup 98point6. based drugstore.com, which was acquired by Walgreens in 2011 for $429 million.

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Seattle area boasts 10 fast-growing unicorns: Can you name the billion dollar startups?

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Co-founder and CEO : Nick Huzar, former product manager at T-Mobile and CTO at Konnects. Founded : 2011. Co-founder and CEO : Matt Oppenheimer , head of mobile and internet banking initiatives at Barclays Kenya. Founded : 2011. Valuation : $1.4 billion (as of August 2019). GeekWire 200 rank : No. GeekWire Photo).

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AWS re: Invent - All Things Distributed

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Jeff Bezos 2011 Letter to Shareholders. CTO - Amazon.com. We are creating powerful self-service platforms that allow thousands of people to boldly experiment and accomplish things that would otherwise be impossible or impractical. And enough food for thought for everyone about how to continue to reinvent. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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FDIC’s View of Cybersecurity and Lessons Learned For All Industries

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For this occurrence, the attacks occurred in 2010, 2011, and at least through 2014. A foreign country has confidential data regarding the US banking industry, and a FDIC leaders intentionally lied. What would happen with the banking industry if the nation used this data from the breach in a detrimental, persistent manner?

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