Finextra

JUNE 11, 2025

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.

Financial Inclusion

PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

That is how the world first met the iPhone a little over ten years ago in January 2007, when Steve Jobs took to the stage to announce Apple’s latest and greatest innovation. And on June 29, 2007, we finally got it. And we are calling it iPhone.”. The world stopped what it was doing to take a look. And then there was the Super Bowl.

Push-to-Card

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

It may have started in 2007 when the U.K. Rails and railroads, Buffet wrote in Berkshire’s 2016 Annual Letter, are four times as fuel efficient as trucks , requiring only a single gallon of diesel fuel to move a ton of freight 500 miles. More than 42 percent of the freight that traveled across the 140,000 miles of track in the U.S.

B2B

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MARCH 28, 2016

The path to faster payments in the U.S. doesn’t have to be paved with a 500+ person task force analyzing what the world would look like if we were starting from a clean sheet of paper, competing propositions for who’s going to build and operate a new set of rails, or even what sort of spiffy software can make existing rails faster. Yeah, right.

Faster Payments

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APRIL 8, 2019

But he went on to hit a career 755, a feat that no one came close to matching until 2007, when Barry Bonds broke that record. Gig workers, for example, will likely soon see an upgrade to their payments speed, thanks to a bit of help from their card network friends. Visa Ups the Pace of Gig Payments. Affirm Affirmed by Investors.

Contactless Payments

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 – and the birth of the apps ecosystem a year later in 2008 –inspired an entirely new class of innovators, stating the 2010s with a brand-new toolkit. The last 10 years in payments and commerce have given us millions of dots to connect. Payments will power that shift. Payments will power that shift.

Online and Mobile Banking

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JANUARY 1, 2020

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 – and the birth of the apps ecosystem a year later in 2008 –inspired an entirely new class of innovators, starting the 2010s with a brand-new toolkit. The last 10 years in payments and commerce have given us millions of dots to connect. Payments will power that shift. Payments will power that shift.

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