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Alliance Backs Kenya’s Cloud9 With $500,000 for Cross-Border Payments

AstaBrief Gives Asta An Open 8B Fast Mode For Scientific Reports

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Alliance Backs Kenya’s Cloud9 With $500,000 for Cross-Border Payments

Alliance invested $500,000 in Kenyan fintech Cloud9 as the company expands from digital banking into cross-border payments, stablecoin settlement and business accounts after two acquisitions.

#Cloud9 #Alliance #fintech

October 7, 2026Read More →

AstaBrief Gives Asta An Open 8B Fast Mode For Scientific Reports

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AstaBrief Gives Asta An Open 8B Fast Mode For Scientific Reports

Ai2 released AstaBrief 8B as an open-weights report-generation model for Asta, with a one-pass pipeline that averaged 51.1 seconds per report in Fast mode.

#artificial intelligence #scientific AI #open weights

October 7, 2026Read More →

Ethereum Testnet Update Targets 200 Million-Gas Blocks

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Ethereum Testnet Update Targets 200 Million-Gas Blocks

Ethereum developers released Prysm 7.2.1 so the Sepolia trial of Glamsterdam can test 200 million-gas blocks, more than three times the prior 60 million setting, before any main-network change.

#crypto #Ethereum #blockchain infrastructure

October 6, 2026Read More →

Yokogawa Opens Singapore Hub For Industrial Cyber Resilience

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Yokogawa Opens Singapore Hub For Industrial Cyber Resilience

Yokogawa Engineering Asia has launched a Singapore center focused on OT cyber resilience, training, response planning and recovery coordination for Southeast Asia, Oceania and Taiwan.

#industrial cybersecurity #operational technology #cyber resilience

October 6, 2026Read More →

VOA Tests Six-Month Startup Buildout Before Funding Decisions

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VOA Tests Six-Month Startup Buildout Before Funding Decisions

TechCabal’s interview with VOA Venture Partners founder Victoria Olayide Adesanya describes a six-month build programme that lets the firm work inside African financial-infrastructure startups before deciding whether to invest.

#African fintech #venture capital #VOA Venture Partners

October 6, 2026Read More →

Bitcoin Holds $86,000 As Dollar Index Hits 18-Month High

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Bitcoin Holds $86,000 As Dollar Index Hits 18-Month High

CoinDesk reported that bitcoin stayed near $86,000 while the U.S. Dollar Index reached about 102.5, with U.S. rate expectations and European political risks strengthening the dollar backdrop.

#crypto #bitcoin #U.S. dollar

October 6, 2026Read More →

Aggarwal Pledges Ola Electric Stake To Fund ₹1,000 Cr Rights Issue

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Aggarwal Pledges Ola Electric Stake To Fund ₹1,000 Cr Rights Issue

Ola Electric founder Bhavish Aggarwal pledged 20 Cr shares to finance his participation in a rights issue that forms part of a larger ₹1,500 Cr fundraising plan.

#Ola Electric #Bhavish Aggarwal #rights issue

October 5, 2026Read More →

Southeast Asia’s AI Funding Gap Shifts Focus To Local Workflows

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Southeast Asia’s AI Funding Gap Shifts Focus To Local Workflows

Southeast Asian AI startups face a global market dominated by huge model rounds, pushing the region toward enterprise workflows, infrastructure services and local capital advantages.

#Southeast Asia AI #startup funding #venture capital

October 5, 2026Read More →

BNY And Kraken Parent Weigh Market Infrastructure Partnership

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BNY And Kraken Parent Weigh Market Infrastructure Partnership

BNY and Payward, Kraken’s parent company, are discussing a potential partnership that could connect digital-asset services with broader financial market infrastructure, but no agreement is certain and both sides declined to comment.

#BNY #Payward #Kraken

October 5, 2026Read More →

Mubadala Backs Paymob’s $35 Million Round as Gulf Payments Revenue Rises

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Mubadala Backs Paymob’s $35 Million Round as Gulf Payments Revenue Rises

Mubadala joined Paymob’s $35 million pre-Series C round as the MENA payments company reports threefold consolidated revenue growth and sevenfold GCC revenue growth.

#Mubadala #Paymob #fintech

October 5, 2026Read More →

UAE-Syria Central Bank MoU Sets Banking Cooperation Track

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UAE-Syria Central Bank MoU Sets Banking Cooperation Track

The UAE and Syria central banks signed a memorandum covering payments, supervision, financial inclusion and regulatory expertise as Syria seeks to rebuild banking links and attract foreign capital.

#UAE #Syria #central banks

October 4, 2026Read More →

KoinKoin Tests Regulated Digital-Asset Access in Nigeria

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KoinKoin Tests Regulated Digital-Asset Access in Nigeria

KoinKoin’s Nigeria app launch pairs digital-asset trading, fiat access and tax reporting with participation in central bank and SEC supervisory programmes.

#digital assets #Nigeria fintech #crypto regulation

October 4, 2026Read More →