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Bud Financial helps banks and their customers make more informed decisions using AI with DataStax and Google Cloud

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For banks, data-driven decisions based on rich customer insight can drive personalized and engaging experiences and provide opportunities to find efficiencies and reduce costs. For Bud, the highly scalable, highly reliable DataStax Astra DB is the backbone, allowing them to process hundreds of thousands of banking transactions a second.

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Atos calls for help after plan to raise new capital falters

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French IT services company Atos has called on a third-party trustee to help it negotiate debt refinancing with its banks after plans to raise €720 million in new capital through a rights issue fell through. It announced it requested the appointment Monday, promising to give an update on the negotiations in due course.

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Venture Capital in the Age of AI: Transforming Due Diligence

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Factors affecting funding activity include nearly a dozen interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve Bank since early 2022, record inflation as the highest in four decades, fading valuations, and looming fears of a recession. The case for robust due diligence plays a vital role in either fight-or-flight market scenario.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

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Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets. July 2011: Apotheker and Lynch reach a deal to sell Autonomy to HP, and HP begins its due-diligence examination of Autonomy’s finances. June 2015: Hewlett-Packard Co.

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4 hidden risks of your enterprise cloud strategy

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And those massive platforms sharply limit how far they will allow one enterprise’s IT due diligence to go. When performing whatever minimal due diligence the cloud platform permits — SOC reports, GDPR compliance, PCI ROC, etc. it’s critical to remember that it is only a snapshot at that moment of evaluation.

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AlphaSense for Investment Banking

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Over the last decade, the investment banking sector has been completely transformed by a myriad of factors —the mounting prevalence of digital transformation, shifting economic paradigms, and opportunities in trending areas such as sustainable finance, blockchain , RegTech, etc.

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5 pitfalls to avoid when partnering with startups

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By working closely with them, IT leaders can become more dynamic, proactive, self-determining, self-regulated, flexible, strong, robust, and resilient,” says Dr Suresh A Shan, a technology consultant with Mumbai-based rural non-banking financial company Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services.

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