Credit Sesame CEO On Creating A Smarter, Digital Bank
The challenger bank space is having a bit of a moment. LendingClub is buying Radius Bank. Green Dot is using the bank it already owns to build a bank for the masses. Affirm has added high-yield savings accounts to its alternative credit platform. Goldman’s Marcus had to turn away new customers in the U.K., it says, because it was approaching “ring fencing” thresholds. Now, in … Continue reading Credit Sesame CEO On Creating A Smarter, Digital Bank Continue Reading
In financial fraud, the breaches come when bank standards are lax. Australian bank Westpac Banking Corp. may stand as Exhibit A here. According to a report in ZDNet, Westpac said that “a mix of technology and human error” and “deficient financial crime processes” were behind the financial institution’s (FI’s) lack of compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. Regulators in … 
Up to 45pc of those with the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) could be asymptomatic, helping to spread the virus unknowingly through a population, according to a new study. Published to Annals of Internal Medicine by a team from the Scripps Research Institute, the study analysed public datasets on asymptomatic infections, with its authors highlighting the need for expansive testing … 
On Sunday (14 June), Irish same-day grocery delivery start-up Buymie announced that it has raised an additional €5.8m in funding, bringing the total raised by the company this year to over €8m. The latest investment round, which follows a €2.2m investment made in April 2020, was led by a new investor Wheatsheaf Group. Wheatsheaf Group … 
We’ve reached three months since An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, TD, addressed the nation with measures to be put in place to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. On the macro level, these three months have felt like a decade of historic events; but, on a personal level, you might be wondering where the time has gone. We’re … 
The past few months have been a strange time for companies across the country, with offices closed, teams dispersed and strategies upended. Frieda Murphy is an executive leadership coach and senior people-matters practitioner with Cork consultancy firm 3Sixty. She spoke to me about how it’s now time for companies to start reflecting on the challenges they … 
Babylon Health, a UK AI chatbot and telehealth start-up that was valued at more than $2bn after a $550m funding round last year, recently told the BBC that its platform has suffered a data breach. Babylon Health’s technology is used by the NHS as well as companies such as Prudential, Samsung, Telus and Bupa. The breach became public knowledge … 
As restrictions continue to be eased across the country, the HSE is now attempting to understand how prevalent Covid-19 is in Ireland. To do this, it is launching a new national antibody research project called Scopi (study to investigate Covid-19 infection in people living in Ireland). Although officials have been keeping track of the number … 
A large part of the preparation for the future of work is upskilling your staff, but it’s also important for saving on recruitment costs and contributing to employee wellness. At Learn In, an upskilling platform launched earlier this year, the team is committed to communicating these benefits. I spoke to Learn In’s CEO, David Blake, and COO, … 
The Bernal Institute’s Materials Modelling Group at the University of Limerick has played a role in a new discovery published to Nature Materials. Working as part of an international team, the researchers discovered a new type of molecular switch that could significantly boost the battery life of a smartphone. Dr Damien Thompson, an associate professor …