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The Full List of Fintech Unicorns in Asia (2025)

Fintech News

The city is home to four fintech unicorns in Asia: HashKey Group, WeLab, Micro Connect, and ZA Group, each pushing the boundaries of digital finance in unique ways. The fintech unicorns in Asia are moving to reshape the very fabric of how people and businesses interact with money. billion insurtech Matrixport 1.05 billion payments Coda 2.5

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The Journey of Payments and Clearing Systems in India

Finextra

Indigenous Banking (Shroffs and Mahajans): Long before modern banks, India had a thriving indigenous banking system. Moneylenders, traders, and Shroffs (money changers and bankers) facilitated credit and remittances. They were crucial for financing trade routes within India and internationally.

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Adapt To Faster Payments With Enterprise Fraud Prevention

PYMNTS

ACI Worldwide advises that, as the world moves toward immediate payment ecosystems, a holistic view of the transaction, with layered controls from origination to the application of real-time rules, is the only way to push the pedal to the metal on faster payments and put the brakes on fraud. million in 2007 to £52.5

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How Many Multibillion-Dollar Deals Does It Take To Change Payments?

PYMNTS

And it’s grand strategy at that, with cross-border linkups that anticipate and facilitate (and, yes, spur) the move from cash to paying online or with cards. Finance, two-thirds of payments are made by digital means, a marked boost from the 40 percent tally seen in 2007.

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Amazon Gives Biometric Payments A Hand — In The Store

PYMNTS

The system doesn’t require a “hard touch” — consumers do not have to lay their hand down on the scanner — instead, the consumer waves a hand over the device which then uses a combination of computer vision and depth geometry to identify the customer and connect to their card on file. Or, to be more precise, in the hands of Amazon’s customers.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

Below is a timeline of some of the major Amazon Pay milestones: Amazon’s first known payments product, Pay with Amazon, launched in 2007. In 2007, the company also invested in Bill Me Later (fka I4 Commerce). Based on our findings, it’s hard to claim that Amazon is building the next-generation bank. Amazon Payments.

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TomTom Sells Telematics Unit In Ongoing Push With Google Maps

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Google also now needs a credit card and billing account for access to its API. In September, Google signed exclusive deals with carmakers like Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi in an effort to push android and Google Maps to those maker’s cars. In 2007, at the company’s peak, it was worth about $65 a share.