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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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AI, predictive analytics top list of hot technologies for banks

CIO Business Intelligence

Hot technologies for banks also include 5G , natural language processing (NLP) , microservices architecture , and computer vision, according to Forrester’s recent Top Emerging Technologies in Banking In 2022 report. 5G aids customer service. 5G aids customer service.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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Madrona leads $4.9M round for Stratify, a new fintech startup that aims to automate budgeting

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He previously spent 12 years at Deutsche Bank and nearly four years at Concur, the travel expense giant that sold to SAP for $8.3 The startup aims to automate the budgeting and forecasting process, replacing legacy software used by various types of companies. billion in 2014.

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO Business Intelligence

Christian Spannbauer, CTO for the Digital Hangar, spoke with CIO.com from Barcelona about the impact of this new initiative for the official flag carrier airline of Germany, which, as a founding member of the Star Alliance network, has become a truly global airline. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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