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Evolving money laundering risks for EMIs: Insights from the upcoming NRA

The Payments Association

This marks a significant shift from the 2020 assessment, in which EMIs were rated as “medium” risk. Between 2020 and 2024, the FCA recorded a 231% rise in MLR-related supervisory activity for EMIs and PSPs. As a result, the NRA says the government has a better understanding of the threat in 2025 than it did in 2020.

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The Full List of Fintech Unicorns in Asia (2025)

Fintech News

billion Bolttech, launched in 2020, combines innovative technology with insurance expertise to partner with top insurers and businesses worldwide. Micro Connects core financial tool, Revenue Based Obligations (RBOs), offers investors direct and diversified access to the daily cash flows of the global consumer economy.

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Alipay+ Is Now Enabled in Sri Lanka

Fintech Finance

Introduced in 2020, LANKAQR network is managed and operated by LankaPay, providing a platform to connect consumers, banks and merchants into a single payment network across the country.

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US Economy Could Lose $10B To Chinese Travel Ban 

PYMNTS

economy $10.3 economy” and the virus, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told Reuters on Tuesday (Feb. in 2020 instead of 2 percent. . Since the 2002 SARS outbreak, Chinese tourism to the U.S. tourism dollars, most of that in 2020, Oxford Economics estimates. billion in lost tourism dollars.

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Alipay+ Now Accepted at 400,000 Merchants in Sri Lanka

Fintech News

LANKAQR, launched in 2020, is managed by LankaPay and provides a unified digital payments platform across banks and merchants in the country. With the rollout now live, travellers from 10 countries and regions can use 14 Alipay+ partner e-wallets to make payments at over 400,000 merchants across Sri Lanka by scanning the LANKAQR code.

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Some Restaurants Opt For A Long Winter’s Nap

PYMNTS

Adults with positive SARS-CoV-2 test results were approximately twice as likely to have reported dining at a restaurant than were those with negative SARS-CoV-2 test results.”. Admittedly, things look bleak for restaurants, even as life resumes and economies reopen. America doesn’t have the appetite for this. We’ve had it.

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Taiwan’s Fintech Push: Harnessing Innovation and Expanding Global Ties

The Fintech Times

Taiwan, along with South Korea, Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore, forms the group known as the ‘Four Asian Tigers,’ renowned for their rapid industrialisation since the 1960s. These economies have since developed into fully advanced nations. Taiwan’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is over $35,000.