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The Full List of Fintech Unicorns in Asia (2025)

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It provides access to game credits, gift codes, and vouchers using familiar local payment methods such as mobile carrier billing and e-wallets. 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. billion payments Coda 2.5

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A List of Digital Banks in Asia

Fintech News

Are digital first banks in Asia poised to lead a disruptive charge against well-entrenched, established commercial banks? In the traditional banking sphere globally, but especially true in Asia, there is a considerable proportion of unbanked and underbanked populations who lack complete or any access to banking services.

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The Journey of Payments and Clearing Systems in India

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Indigenous Banking (Shroffs and Mahajans): Long before modern banks, India had a thriving indigenous banking system. These banks introduced formal ledger-based accounting and cheque payments. This expanded the reach of formal banking to rural areas. This introduced standardization and divisibility.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.” — John Collison.

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Top 10 Most Funded Fintech in India For 2025

Fintech News

Billion One of Indias original fintech pioneers, Paytm has been a household name since the early days of mobile wallets and QR-code-based payments. Unlike some flashier names, Pine Labs has quietly built essential infrastructure powering offline-to-online commerce across the region. They can either have reached unicorn status or not.

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

CB Insights

If Amazon can get you lower-debt payments or give you a bank account, you’ll buy more stuff on Amazon.”. Based on our findings, it’s hard to claim that Amazon is building the next-generation bank. In aggregate, these product development and investment decisions reveal that Amazon isn’t building a traditional bank that serves everyone.

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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

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Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. EMV chip card technology had a good two decades or so, beginning in the mid-’90s. Most modern card readers and payment terminals are NFC-equipped.