Fintech Finance

JANUARY 31, 2025

Indias rapid digital payment transformationexpanding at a notable rate of 44% CAGR by transaction volume from 2017 to 2024paired with a surge in cross-border consumer transactions, which grew by 121% in the last nine months of 2024 alone, has created a strong demand for alternative consumer payout solutions.

Cross-Border

The Payments Association

JULY 18, 2025

Partnering with Yaspa allows us to extend our reach and offer even greater value to merchants across Europe who demand flexibility, intelligence, and speed in their payment infrastructure.” About Yaspa 
‍ Yaspa is an award-winning fintech that delivers personal intelligence through instant payments.

Multi-Currency

Finovate

JANUARY 21, 2025

“At LeapXpert, we’re seeing greater and greater demand for our platform, driven in part by the three-year crackdown by global regulators on off-channel communications,” LeapXpert Founder and CEO Dima Gutzeit said. “This is now expanding beyond regulated enterprises into non-regulated sectors, as the DOJ in the U.S.

Security

The Fintech Times

JANUARY 8, 2025

Having obtained the MPI licence, XTransfer can now provide services including account issuance, domestic money transfer, cross-border money transfer, and e-money issuance, addressing the increasing demand for secure and convenient cross-border payment solutions in Singapore.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech News

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Founded in San Francisco in 2017, Anchorage Digital set up its Singapore branch in 2022 to strengthen its presence in Asia. Nathan McCauley, “With approval from MAS, Anchorage Digital Singapore is here to meet global demand from leading institutions. Anchorage Digital Singapore also offers 24/7 client support.

On-Demand

Fintech News

JULY 31, 2025

Line Man Wongnai is a leading Thai tech company that emerged from the merger of two entities in 2020: Line Man, an on-demand assistant app offering services including food delivery, grocery delivery, ride-hailing, and messaging; and Wongnai, a popular restaurant review platform in Thailand. It also plans to acquire one or two tech startups.

FinTech

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Digital payment adoption is experiencing significant growth across India – expanding at a rate of 44 per cent CAGR by transaction volume from 2017 to 2024. Cross-border consumer transactions also grew by 121 per cent in the last nine months of 2024 alone – creating strong demand for alternative consumer payout solutions.

Cross-Border

The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Santa Catarina-based fintech, which was founded in 2017 and has been a regulated payment institution since 2023, brings over 500 new clients to Payretailers. Together, we aim to accelerate our journey of technological innovation, offering innovative, secure, and efficient solutions to meet market demands.

Central Bank

The Fintech Times

JANUARY 17, 2025

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, Guavapay says it enjoyed a significant increase in its overall customer base with annual revenue growth of 71 per cent in 2024 compared to the previous year, while nearly tripling the size of its London office team in response to the growing global demand for accessible financial options.

Innovation

Payments Dive

JULY 2, 2025

Published July 2, 2025 By Tatiana Walk-Morris post share post print email license An Alibaba Group sign is displayed at the its booth at CES 2017 on January 5, 2017 in Las Vegas. small and mid-sized merchants on the Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba, according to a Thursday press release. division, said in the statement.

BNPL

Finovate

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The California-based company has offered paper-based and recycled products since 2017, and made a pledge in 2022 to convert most of its own original card products to digital or paper. The move will help support Mastercard’s commitment to remove first-use, PVC plastics from payment cards on its network by 2028.

Visa

The Payments Association

JULY 18, 2025

Strategic modernisation through modular, API-first architecture enables a phased, agile response to compliance demands. It’s not just about meeting today’s deadlines - it’s about future-proofing operations in an increasingly fragmented regulatory landscape.”

Regulations

Fintech News

JUNE 12, 2025

Back in 2017, cash dominated all transactions. Nghiem linked this transformation to a broader shift that began around 2017-2018, when conversations around the Fourth Industrial Revolution began gaining traction in Vietnam. Founded in 2017, Finhay is a digital investment platform and personal finance app.

Government

Finovate

JUNE 11, 2025

In their announcement, the companies noted that their partnership comes as demand for modern card solutions is growing among SMEs in the UK. Headquartered in Cardiff, Wales, and founded in 2017, ANNA Money made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2020. billion in 2029.

Debit Card

Finovate

APRIL 10, 2025

” Pinch was founded in 2017 and currently serves 2,000 merchants throughout Australia and New Zealand. ” The acquisition of Pinch Payments highlights a broader trend in the payments industry as demand grows for faster, more flexible, and embedded payment experiences. .

Acquirers

The Payments Association

MARCH 18, 2025

For payments firms, integrating tailored insurance at checkout or as part of transaction flows presents a new value proposition and customer engagement lever, but also demands new risk management capabilities. Insurers now assess policyholders’ financial behaviouralongside payment patternsto adjust coverage dynamically.

Finance

Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The demand for efficient and user-friendly financial solutions is paramount, especially among the unbanked population, which stands at approximately 40% of the adult population in Peru. With a population of 32 million, Peru has become a significant player in the remittance landscape, receiving US$4,446 million in remittances in 2023.

Financial Inclusion

Finextra

JULY 22, 2025

Regulators increasingly demand explainability and audit trails to justify market behavior. Advances in reinforcement learning and large language models (LLMs) have enabled agents to make decisions, learn from outcomes, and operate independently in complex domains. One thing is clear: the agent is already on the floor. What is Agentic AI?

AI

Finextra

JULY 13, 2025

Monzo obtained a UK banking license with restrictions in 2016 and, after rigorous testing, had those restrictions lifted in April 2017 – officially becoming “a fully authorised, unrestricted bank”. Monzo matters because it exemplifies how a relentless focus on customers can translate into both rapid growth and real revenues.

Payment APIs and Integration

Finovate

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Headquartered in Norway, Signicat made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2017 in London. “Asia presents vast opportunities for growth and expansion, yet it also brings unique challenges, particularly around meeting local regulatory demands,” AsiaVerify Head of U.K. and Europe Joanna Wands said.

Compliance

Finextra

JULY 21, 2025

This has increased from 91% in 2022 to 92% in 2024, which is a major slowdown in adoption in comparison to 84% in 2020 and 63% in 2017. However, the persistence of this core group despite infrastructure pressures suggests remarkable resilience in cash demand. What remains is a core of approximately 2.6

Payments

Cardfellow

JUNE 16, 2025

It has been operating since 2017, but is not government-backed. There may not be much demand from the business side for real-time transaction settlement. Some business owners choose to pay for instant funding or faster settlement, but if you don’t elect to do that, settlement typically takes 1-3 business days.

FedNow

Fintech News

JUNE 26, 2025

Wealthtech Singapore Players For example, Phillip Securities, a well-respected name in the financial services industry, introduced in 2017 SMART Portfolio, a robo-advisory platform offering digital risk profiling and automated portfolio rebalancing.

Advisors

Payments Dive

JUNE 17, 2025

The prior contracts for that work, from 2017, went to Citibank and U.S. Ramp’s platform is focused on using AI intuitively on behalf of customers that may not have the resources to pursue AI tools on their own, Ramp’s co-founder and CEO, Eric Glyman, wrote Monday in a letter to investors. Please select at least one newsletter.

Privacy

Finextra

JULY 3, 2025

Launched in 2017 by Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi, Qonto combines business banking with financial tools including invoicing, bookkeeping, and spend management. Sponsored [On-Demand Webinar] Can You Have It All? hours 21 April 2022 /wholesale French fintech for SMEs Qonto achieves €4.4

Payment APIs and Integration

Fintech News

JUNE 15, 2025

The investment is aimed at meeting rising demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence services and supporting national efforts to strengthen AI capability. The company says this is the largest publicly-announced tech investment in Australia to date.

AI

Payments Dive

JULY 8, 2025

Instacart noted that it first partnered with Wegmans in 2017 on same-day delivery and has since expanded the collaboration to include solutions like pickup, EBT SNAP acceptance and loyalty integration. Published July 8, 2025 Catherine Douglas Moran Editor post share post print email license A person using an Instacart Caper Cart.

Zelle

Finextra

JULY 3, 2025

This funding allows us to scale the platform to meet that growing demand, while maintaining our core focus on security, compliance and innovation.” Crypto is maturing as an asset class, and the future will demand local players have the same scale, governance and transparency expected of companies operating in public markets,” Wang added.

Cross-Border Payments

The Finance Weekly

APRIL 25, 2022

The 2017 NotPetya attack, believed to have been launched by Russia, hit Ukraine in 2017 before spreading to other countries and companies around the world. The 2017 NotPetya attack, believed to have been launched by Russia, hit Ukraine in 2017 before spreading to other countries and companies around the world.

Finance

Fintech News

MARCH 11, 2024

Established in 2017 by Setiawan, alongside former Gojek executives Windy Natriavi and Rama Notowidigdo, AwanTunai offers affordable inventory purchase financing, integrated online ordering, and inventory management solutions to wholesalers and micro-merchants. Led by Norfund, MUIP appeared first on Fintech Singapore.

On-Demand

Finovate

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Privakey made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2017 in New York. Designed for enterprises, Privakey SSO responds to the demand for passwordless authentication as cybercriminals leverage social engineering to take advantage of traditional password-based systems.

Authentication

Fintech Finance

AUGUST 22, 2024

Founded in 2017, Transact365 offers a global payments solution platform for merchants across the world in leading industries. Transact365 , a UK-based global payments platform, powering merchants across the globe, has expanded further by growing its offering of solutions with its new Canadian FINTRAC MSB license.

Payment Gateways

Fintech News

JANUARY 7, 2024

Since 2017, Pyongyang-linked threat actors have caused the loss of nearly US$3 billion worth of crypto. billion stolen in the past two years alone, North Korea’s hacking prowess demands continuous vigilance and innovation from business and governments. TRM Labs’ report said, “With nearly US$ 1.5

OFAC

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Credit inquiries over the past six months — a sign of credit demand — was down slightly to 122 million. August was the six month in a row that saw a drop in consumer credit card balances, the lowest level since 2017. According to the Fed’s latest quarterly report on household debt and credit, overall consumer debt hit $14.35

Credit Cards

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Demand For Luxury . Stefanova said pent-up demand for luxury goods has been strong lately, especially from wealthier consumers looking to treat themselves to something special after months of lockdowns, working from home and highly curtailed social lives. . You're no longer bound to the few brands you engage with,” she said.

B2C