Senegalese-US fintech Wave has secured a €90 million syndicated loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank, and other sources. The syndicated loan comprises loans from Symbiotics, Blue Orchard, Lendable, responsAbility Investments, Finnfund, and Norfund.
Huawei South Africa has announced its $5.8 million (R100-million) Cloud Spark programme which the company claims will support more than 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) over the next 3 years.
Business users create 70% of all no-code marketing workflows, compared with fewer than half built by business users in other departments, Workato reports. On the other hand, marketing operations rank just seventh among most commonly automated processes, and sales and marketing departments account for just 13% of automations, well behind finance and accounting (26%), IT (25%) and data ops (15%). Make of this what you will.
Salesforce has announced a new solution, Unified Knowledge, that will pull data from third-party systems thus supplementing Salesforce Data Cloud with external information sources. Initially, this is mainly aimed at helping Service Cloud users in combination with Einstein for Service’s generative AI. It was developed through a strategic partnership with AI vendor Zoomin.