UAE-based Wio Bank forms partnership with Stripe
Wio Bank PJSC, the region’s first platform bank, has announced a partnership with Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, which will enable SMEs in the UAE to access the power of e-commerce faster and more easily and conveniently. Source: Fintech News
Agribank launches mobile app
Agribusiness Rural Bank, Inc. (Agribank), one of the leading rural banking institutions in the Philippines, has launched an innovative new Mobile Banking App for Android and iOS designed to transform its customers’ experience. Source: Fintech News
Insurtech bolttech closes Series B
bolttech, one of the world’s fastest growing international insurtech companies, today announced Tokio Marine, alongside other shareholders, will lead bolttech’s Series B funding round. Source: Fintech News
CSO Actions to Prepare for the Future of Sales
The future of sales is upon us and it is bringing seismic shifts to the sales organization. Changing business-to-business customer buying behaviours, revenue technologies which support end-to-end revenue generation and changing working patterns will mold the sales organization of the future. CSOs need to take steps now to begin the journey to adapt their sales […]
Tech Buying Basics Role of the Week: the CIO
The lines continue to blur This week, we’re looking at a role we all think we know well: the Chief Information Officer, or CIO. This is another role about which we could ask ‘when is a CIO not a CIO?’ To paraphrase a well-known Australian ad from the 1980s, “CIOs ain’t CIOs”. I’ve had more […]
Amazon Lex launches support for Hindi and Dutch
We are excited to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Hindi and Dutch. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, […]
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports minor versions 2014 SP3 CU4, 2016 SP3 GDR, 2017 CU 30, and 2019 CU16
New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor versions for SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. Source: AWS
Amazon RDS now supports automating connectivity set up between an existing RDS or Aurora database and an EC2 compute instance
Starting today, you have the option to automatically set up connectivity between an existing Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora database and an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute instance. From the Amazon RDS console, you can choose an action to set up connection between your RDS or Aurora database and an […]
AWS Glue Crawlers support incremental Amazon S3 crawling on existing AWS Glue Data Catalog tables
AWS Glue includes crawlers based on Amazon S3 Event Notifications, a capability that make discovering datasets simpler by scanning only data based on events in Amazon S3. The Glue crawler extracts the data schema and automatically populates the AWS Glue Data Catalog, which keeps the metadata current. By crawling datasets based on S3 events, this […]
AWS SAM CLI Pipelines now supports Open ID Connect Protocol
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces general availability of Open ID Connect (OIDC) support in SAM CLI Pipelines. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. SAM Pipelines make it easier to create continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines […]