Tagged: diversity

March 14, 2023 @ 11:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

C2FO, the world’s on-demand working capital platform, and the Schultz Family Foundation, founded by Sheri Schultz and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, announced a new initiative designed “to provide access to $100 million in working capital for small and diverse businesses.” Leveraging unique data from the… Read More

March 13, 2023 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As Chief Executive of property finance platform, CapitalRise, Uma Rajah says she’s  responsible for all aspects of the business: from creating their strategy, “to execution of that strategy, and all aspects of running the company – including recruitment.” Uma Rajah notes that she approaches all… Read More

November 5, 2022 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ThriveDX, the global cybersecurity education solutions provider, announced today it is prioritizing a new category in cybersecurity, “Human Factor Security”, in order “to close the global cybersecurity skills and talent gap while increasing diversity and inclusion across the industry.” Cybersecurity Ventures reported that “there are… Read More

August 30, 2022 @ 6:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of payments and financial services technology with a growing presence in New Jersey, is reportedly partnering with Rutgers University-Newark “to create and fund a new program designed to drive diversity and innovation within the financial technology field.” The… Read More

August 22, 2022 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Supplier Success, a supplier finance and corporate diversity consultancy, and C2FO, which claims to be the world’s largest platform for working capital, recently announced they have entered into a strategic partnership. This partnership “combines Supplier Success’s expertise in supporting diverse-owned businesses and ethical/sustainable (ESG) strategy… Read More

June 22, 2022 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TD Bank Group announced that it would offer open-source access to its Equity Resource Hub, a digital platform “created by TD Lab to integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into all stages of product & service design.” By making the Hub, initially a proprietary tool launched… Read More

June 7, 2022 @ 1:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ANZ recently announced its Australian and New Zealand based employees who are affirming their gender will be able “to access six weeks of paid leave, and up to 12 months’ unpaid leave.” The newly created Gender Affirmation Leave will support staff as they “undergo any… Read More

June 5, 2022 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Indian Fintech firm Razorpay notes that Slack has become one of the “most popular” communication apps used in businesses today. As mentioned in a blog post by Razorpay, Slack is a digital workplace communication tool that “connects you to people and tools you work with.”… Read More

May 30, 2022 @ 3:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sanjay from the People and Talent Team at MarketFinance notes that his primary role is Talent Acquisition Lead where he helps find the best people to build their vision of “frictionless finance” for small businesses. Equally important to him is his position as Chair of… Read More

February 28, 2022 @ 4:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DIAL Global,  a Diversity & Inclusion Accelerator that powers growth for blue-chip firms, has acquired 125% (£500,081) of its £400,000 target from 146 investors (at the time of writing) via its crowdfunding campaign carried out through Seedrs. Located in Leamington Spa, United Kingdom, DIAL Global operates… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 4:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s digital banking platform Starling Bank has provided some end-of-year updates. As we look ahead to 2022, Starling Bank notes that diversity is at “the heart” of their company. They believe that “regardless of who you are, it is your knowledge, skills and experience that matter.”… Read More

September 12, 2021 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Women Returners and Innovate Finance have teamed up to establish a cross-company returner program, which aims to encourage professionals to try re-entering the Fintech industry after long-term or extended career breaks. UK’s digital bank Starling, Fintech Unicorn Klarna and PrimaryBid will reportedly take part in… Read More

May 4, 2021 @ 5:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SECs) Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee held a meeting to discuss access to capital in underserved markets. The goal is to improve access to capital for underrepresented founders. The Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital… Read More

December 26, 2020 @ 1:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Varo Money, Inc., the first consumer Fintech in the US to become a chartered national bank, recently explained how they’re building a better banking platform. Philippa Girling, Chief Risk Officer at Varo Money, noted that she’d been working in the banking industry for the past… Read More

October 20, 2020 @ 8:09 am By JD Alois  |  

The Future Fund is a COVID support program for early-stage firms. The Fund provides access to capital to younger firms that do not qualify for other COVID support schemes. In brief, it is a matching program with the UK government will invest in convertible securities… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 7:55 am By JD Alois  |  

The British Business Bank has distributed some data points pertaining to the Future Fund on the 711 individual companies that have been approved to receive £720 million via convertible securities offerings. The Future Fund is a COVID support program that is seeking to support early-stage… Read More

November 1, 2019 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-headquartered Zilliqa, a high-throughput public blockchain network for building decentralized applications (dApps), is preparing to launch the return of Blockchain A-Z, a series of educational workshops on distributed ledger technology (DLT).  According to a press release shared with CrowdFund Insider, Zilliqa is teaming up with… Read More

October 3, 2018 @ 11:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Innovate Finance announced on Wednesday the launch of its new diversity program, which is led by the Women in FinTech Initiative for 2018-19. While sharing more details about the program, Charlotte Crosswell, CEO fo Innovate Finance, stated: “We firmly believe that developing a more inclusive environment is at… Read More

July 16, 2018 @ 9:37 am By Masha Prusakova  |  

Male and white – this was the start of the cryptocurrency world. Since the early days of cryptocurrencies, miners, and blockchain developers have been comprised of men – and today’s token projects are reflective of that gender disparity. There is a gender imbalance in the… Read More

June 10, 2018 @ 11:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Republic, an investment crowdfunding platform that is mission driven, has published a new Diversity Report that recognizes the fact that “good ideas are universal – opportunity isn’t.” In the US, securities laws have been skewed to favor the wealthy (think of the current punitive definition… Read More