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Deel and Clarity on hiring fraud in the age of deepfakes
Deel's Alex Bouaziz and Clarity's Michael Matias explain why a one-off identity check at hiring no longer holds as deepfake candidates reach real interviews.
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Three Things Every First Time Fund Manager Needs Before Raising Capital
Build an investment platform around investor trust and clear business goals—not appearances. Prioritize investor conversations, practical systems, and an aligned team.If you’re thinking about launching an institutional investment platform, the legal side is only part of the story.
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FintechAI & ML
eToro brings MCP connectors to Claude, ChatGPT and Grok
The Nasdaq-listed trading platform lets retail investors query live portfolios through AI assistants, marking a step toward agentic investing.The Nasdaq-listed trading platform lets retail investors query live portfolios through AI assistants, marking a step toward agentic investing. -
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nCino launches agentic mortgage suite to cut 59-hour approvals
nCino's new Loan Officer Productivity Suite uses agentic AI to compress mortgage pre-approval cycles from days to minutes.nCino's new Loan Officer Productivity Suite uses agentic AI to compress mortgage pre-approval cycles from days to minutes. -
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Flyte Aviation lists as VJET with AI booking play for private jets
A former medical-device firm rebrands as a private aviation tech platform, targeting a fragmented $11.6bn US charter market.A former medical-device firm rebrands as a private aviation tech platform, targeting a fragmented $11.6bn US charter market.
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Real Estate
DIFC Courts issue blockchain-verified documents for global use
Dubai's DIFC Courts now attach NFT-based credentials to court orders, enabling instant cross-border authenticity checks without exposing case data.
Dubai's DIFC Courts now attach NFT-based credentials to court orders, enabling instant cross-border authenticity checks without exposing case data.
Transportation & Logistics
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Retail & E-Commerce
Kholo Capital backs South African ICT distributor DCC with R275m
A R1.4bn Southern African mezzanine fund deploys US$17m into ICT distribution, signalling growing private-market appetite for mid-market tech infrastructure.
A R1.4bn Southern African mezzanine fund deploys US$17m into ICT distribution, signalling growing private-market appetite for mid-market tech infrastructure.
Cybersecurity
Deel and Clarity on hiring fraud in the age of deepfakes
Deel's Alex Bouaziz and Clarity's Michael Matias explain why a one-off identity check at hiring no longer holds as deepfake candidates reach real interviews.
Deel, the global people platform, has acquired Clarity, an AI cybersecurity company that specialises in identity verification, deepfake detection and fraud prevention.
Datatech
Three Things Every First Time Fund Manager Needs Before Raising Capital
Build an investment platform around investor trust and clear business goals—not appearances. Prioritize investor conversations, practical systems, and an aligned team.
If you’re thinking about launching an institutional investment platform, the legal side is only part of the story.
Fintech
Blockchain
African banks make simultaneous digital asset land grab
FNB, Absa and Standard Bank moved within days of each other to co-opt Africa's digital asset stack, ending years of defensive posturing.
FNB, Absa and Standard Bank moved within days of each other to co-opt Africa's digital asset stack, ending years of defensive posturing.
Fintech
AI & ML
eToro brings MCP connectors to Claude, ChatGPT and Grok
The Nasdaq-listed trading platform lets retail investors query live portfolios through AI assistants, marking a step toward agentic investing.
The Nasdaq-listed trading platform lets retail investors query live portfolios through AI assistants, marking a step toward agentic investing.
Retail & E-Commerce
Fintech
RewardinMe enters Myanmar with gamified e-wallet campaign
Malaysia's AI-powered playable marketing platform expands into Myanmar, targeting daily active usage in a mobile-first fintech market.
Malaysia's AI-powered playable marketing platform expands into Myanmar, targeting daily active usage in a mobile-first fintech market.
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Retail & E-Commerce
AND Global joins TSE Asia Startup Hub with Tokyo listing in sight
The Mongolia-born fintech's Tokyo Stock Exchange selection signals how Asian capital markets are pulling frontier fintech into Japan's orbit.
The Mongolia-born fintech's Tokyo Stock Exchange selection signals how Asian capital markets are pulling frontier fintech into Japan's orbit.
Fintech
AI & ML
nCino launches agentic mortgage suite to cut 59-hour approvals
nCino's new Loan Officer Productivity Suite uses agentic AI to compress mortgage pre-approval cycles from days to minutes.
nCino's new Loan Officer Productivity Suite uses agentic AI to compress mortgage pre-approval cycles from days to minutes.
Travel
Aerospace
AI & ML
Flyte Aviation lists as VJET with AI booking play for private jets
A former medical-device firm rebrands as a private aviation tech platform, targeting a fragmented $11.6bn US charter market.
A former medical-device firm rebrands as a private aviation tech platform, targeting a fragmented $11.6bn US charter market.
AI & ML
Fintech
Farseer Co-Founder Answers the Bank of England's AI Warning
Matej Trbara, co-founder of FP&A platform Farseer, on black box forecasts, correlated model risk and what regulators should demand of AI in finance.
The Bank of England has warned that the adoption of artificial intelligence could pose risks to financial stability, including the danger that firms converging on similar models and similar data end up making the same mistake at the same moment.
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Zirtue's Dennis Cail on the bills families cannot cover alone
Zirtue co-founder Dennis Cail on what a million families' bill requests say about US household budgets, and why the money goes to the biller, not the borrower.
Zirtue is a US relationship-based lending platform that lets people ask family and friends for a loan to pay a specific bill, with the money sent directly to the biller and repayment terms agreed up front.The company says more than a million families
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Cybersecurity
JA Africa launches free CyberSmart course to tackle youth online fraud
JA Africa's bilingual CyberSmart course targets mobile money scams and AI-driven phishing affecting Africa's 570 million internet users.
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Pharmaceuticals
Microbiotica raises £36m Series C to fund Phase 2 UC trial of MB310
The Cambridge microbiome biotech closed its Series C, led by British Business Bank, to advance oral candidate MB310 into a Phase 2 ulcerative colitis study.
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AI & ML
Six Weeks In, the EU AI Act Tests Banks Beyond the Chatbot
The 2 August milestone has passed. TTEC Digital's Amanda Panks on what has actually changed for banks, where the gaps are, and why the next test is the AI customers never
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Pharmaceuticals
IBA and Framatome launch Ekalia JV to scale Astatine-211 supply
The joint venture will build an international network of industrial At-211 production sites, starting in Nantes in 2028, to supply targeted alpha therapy programmes.
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AI & ML
Etisalat completes first agentic AI contract evaluation in procurement
The Abu Dhabi telco says its private-cloud agentic AI deployment could cut procurement cycle times by around 50 per cent.
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Pharmaceuticals
Ascendis Pharma's navepegritide wins CHMP backing for achondroplasia
The EMA advisory committee has recommended EU marketing authorisation for TransCon CNP in children aged two and over, with an EC decision expected before year
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AI & ML
Presight and X14 Media sign MOU on AI-driven media intelligence
The Abu Dhabi-listed AI firm and regional media-monitoring specialist will explore integrating agentic AI with Arabic-first media analytics for government and enterprise
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Digital Health
Samsung Health cuts sleep coaching setup to three nights of data
Samsung Health's October update lowers the sleep coaching activation threshold and adds weekly adaptive guidance, plus expanded running levels and Strava route
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Enterprise Software
intelliflo acquires Mabel Insights to embed research in advice platform
intelliflo has bought Mabel Insights, folding its whole-of-market portfolio research tools into intelliflo office while keeping them free for advisers.
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Digital Health
WHOOP launches Arabic-language app to accelerate GCC growth
WHOOP has released a fully redesigned Arabic app and supporting campaign across the GCC, where membership is up over 75% year-on-year.
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Cloud Infrastructure
NetApp and Oracle to bring ONTAP storage natively to OCI
NetApp and Oracle have announced a fully managed, OCI-native storage service based on ONTAP, targeting AI and regulated enterprise workloads, due within 12 months.
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Genomics
Abu Dhabi Biobank and Cleveland Clinic tie up on UAE cancer biobank
The partnership will collect tumour and blood samples from cancer patients to build a sequenced biobank resource supporting personalised oncology research in the region.
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