From a non-existent concept pre-Covid-19 to becoming fully entrenched in common parlance, hybrid work and hybrid workplaces, are the centre of conversations and debates in boardrooms and home offices across South Africa.

ApolloX, one of the top 10 decentralized exchanges (DEXes) on CoinMarketCap as of June 2022, announced today that it has secured an undisclosed amount in seed funding from investors including Binance Labs and Kronos Research.

Other investors who participated in the round include Lingfeng Capital, SafePal, Token Pocket, 3Commas and LUX Capital.

CASHe, India’s leading credit & wealth-led, AI-driven financial wellness platform, announced that it has crossed the significant milestone of having disbursed 1.2 million loans worth Rs. 4,000 crores since its inception. It further stated that on the back of economic revival and a strong rebound in retail loan demand, the company is eyeing fresh disbursals worth Rs 3,600 crores in FY22-23, thereby projecting a cumulative loan disbursement of Rs. 7,600 crores ( 1Billion USD ) by end of this financial year.

World-leading embedded finance experiences platform, Railsbank, has changed its name to Railsr, and launched a rewards offering, signifying that it is ready to create and deliver the next evolution in the consumer finance experience. 

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Liberis, a leading global embedded business finance platform, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Barclaycard to offer its small business customers access to personalised revenue-based finance. The news follows Barclays’ investment of £34.5 million in Liberis agreed in Q4 2021. 

In a rare acquisition of a US tech company by an African tech company, MFS Africa, Africa’s largest digital payments network, today announces that it has reached an agreement to buy Global Technology Partners (GTP). 

The Schrems II ruling given by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 16 July 2020 upset the apple cart for organizations across the globe, and the latest iteration of the regulation is generating waves of anxiety among in-house legal teams who are already charged with ensuring that their contracts are updated to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Many organizations are now dealing with thousands, if not tens of thousands, of supplier contracts that involve the processing of personal data.

VikingCloud, a leading provider of cyber security and compliance solutions, has announced the appointment of Tracey Luehring as its new Chief Financial Officer.