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The Full List of Fintech Unicorns in Asia (2025)

Fintech News

billion payments Advance Intelligence Group Valuation: $2 billion Founded in 2016, Advance Intelligence Group is the parent company of Atome Financial, ADVANCE.AI, and Ginee. 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.

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Legacy Tech Still Plagues 95% of Asia Pacific Banks, Slowing Down Modernisation

Fintech News

Banking institutions across Asia Pacific are under increasing pressure to modernise. Whether in current or emerging markets, banks are riding the tide of a rapidly shifting landscape defined by digital technologies, adapting to regulatory requirements, rising customer expectations, and stiff competition from nimble fintech startups.

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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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Visa Beats 3Q Estimates As Payments Volume Leaps

PYMNTS

The company saw what management deemed encouraging trends in transaction volumes, which helped push earnings per share to $0.86, better than consensus by five pennies. The headline numbers show that payments volume globally, which excluded the impact of currency fluctuations, were up 38 percentage points to $1.7 cards were 3.1

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Big Bounce In Payments Volume Helps Visa Beat The Street

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According to CEO Alfred Kelly, Visa ended its financial year as it began, “with strong growth across payments volume, cross-border volume and processed transactions, which was bolstered by the addition of Visa Europe.” The headline was, of course, the marked increase in payment volume of nearly 10 percent (9.8 percent) to $1.93

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Is Clover a Good POS System for Your Business?

Synapse Payment Systems

The Clover point-of-sale system is a big step above a standard credit card terminal. In some scenarios, Square may be a cheaper option overall for your business, but this is only the case for merchants processing very low monthly volumes and buying the equipment outright. If so, what makes Clover the best option?

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FinCEN Files Show Banks’ ‘Whack-a-Mole’ Battle Against KYC/AML

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21), Commerzbank recounted in a statement that the transactions detailed in the FinCEN files are “based entirely on reports made by Commerzbank to the responsible authorities, mainly in the period 2010 to 2016,” and that the bank had reached a settlement in 2015 to pay regulators about $1.5 In one example, reported on Monday (Sept.

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