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Middle East Open Banking outfit Tarabut Gateway raises $13m 23 February 2021 Middle Eastern Open Banking platform Tarabut Gateway has raised $13 million in what it claims is the largest fintech seed round in Mena history. Berlin-based Target Global led the round for Tarabut Gateway, which is also backed by Kingsway, CE Ventures, Entrée Capital, Zamil Investment Group, Global Ventures, Almoayed Technologies and Mad’a Investment.
The funding comes on the heels of Bahrain-based Tarabut s recent expansion into the UAE. The company says it will use the new money to hire 40 people, add new products, and move into new markets.
WINNIPEG The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is calling for regulatory changes that will better monitor the posting and sharing of child sexual abuse materials in the digital sphere. We have an epidemic online and we have an epidemic because we have failed to put any guardrails in and around what is happening in the online world, said Signy Arnason, associate executive director for the Manitoba-based Canadian Centre for Child Protection. We regulate all other spaces, everything in the offline world to protect children and somehow we ve abandoned kids online, said Arnason. The renewed call-to-action comes as the Canadian Centre for Child Protection presented federal lawmakers with findings from a probe into the amount of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) found on a popular pornographic website.