The Fintech Times

JULY 30, 2025

To help more Americans engage with and benefit from workplace and personal savings programmes, Vestwell , the backbone of the modern American savings economy, has launched a new multilingual savings platform which offers support for 18 languages across its advisor, employer, and saver portals.

Underserved

The Fintech Times

MARCH 18, 2025

He will advise on PayFutures expansion strategy, as it targets high-growth underserved markets across the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia and Latin America. Founded in 2019 by Manpreet Haer and Zaki Farooq , PayFuture has offices in London, Dubai, Malta, and the Philippines.

FinTech

Fintech Weekly

JULY 24, 2025

What operational decisions have the biggest downstream impact when trying to serve financially underserved or unpredictable user groups? True inclusivity requires rethinking systems, not just interfaces. 4) You’ve worked across strategy, operations, and leadership. Two decisions stand out.

Economy

Fintech Weekly

JULY 15, 2025

Subscribe to FinTech Weekly's newsletter Read by executives at JP Morgan, Coinbase, Blackrock, Klarna and more The Subtle Complexity of Building Fintech for the Underserved For more than a decade, "small business empowerment" has been a rallying cry in fintech. Discover top fintech news and events!

Small Business

Finextra

JUNE 18, 2025

Fo Small and medium enterprises, often underserved due to opaque financials the data-driven profiling creates a new language of trust. With this context, banks can personalize debt instruments, embed inflation-linked clauses, or stagger repayments aligned with expected occupancy rates. The challenge?

Transactions

Finovate

JULY 18, 2025

As a former economist at the French Treasury, Hyppolite—and his co-founder Antoine Michon, who was a technology advisor to France’s Minister of Public Sector Transformation—have had a front-row seat to this challenge. “Retirement doesn’t make you invisible.

Cash Management

Finextra

JULY 3, 2025

Interpath supported as advisors on the new mezzanine facility. With this investment, Propel Finance funding is set to scale its services and reach more underserved UK businesses.

Finance

Fintech News

APRIL 22, 2025

Altruist, a US-based custodian platform for registered investment advisors (RIAs), has raised US$152 million in a Series F funding round led by Singapores sovereign wealth fund GIC. Altruist reported triple-digit growth in revenue, brokerage accounts, and the number of advisors served.

Advisors

PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2021

They plan to add strategic support to the company’s board of advisors. economy, and historically they have been underserved when it comes to the financial tools and insights used to determine their businesses performance,” he said, according to the release. Small businesses are the backbone of the U.S

FinTech

Fintech News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It also anticipated the need for enhanced digital tool adoption for wealth advisors, and Capgemini’s World Wealth Report 2023 showed 55 percent of HNWIs reported that their experience in digital channels is a critical factor for selecting a wealth management firm.

Returns

The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Entrepreneurs are typically smart engineers who have created a revolutionary product or creative marketing professionals who have identified an underserved customer base or a market need. Create a scalable financial ecosystem that includes advisors, partners, and service providers.

Finance

The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It will provide localised digital banking services to everyone, including the underserved. Chatu Mongol Sonakul , advisor of the consortium and former governor, Bank of Thailand said, “I welcome the Bank of Thailand’s initiative to invite new market entrants to foster greater innovation and competition in the financial sector.

Financial Inclusion

Faster Payments Council

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Financial Inclusion Work Group will create a blueprint for leveraging faster payments to accelerate access to the financial system for unbanked and underserved Americans. This capability is essential for those households living paycheck to paycheck who need to make payments immediately to avoid fees and other penalties later.

Financial Inclusion

Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The APIs has not only helped platform partners unlock new revenue opportunities, more importantly, it has allowed ANEXT Bank to engage and enable the ecosystem of partners to accelerate and scale financial inclusion for unserved and underserved MSMEs.

AI

Fintech News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Founded by the cofounders of Decide.com (acquired by eBay), Iterative differentiates itself with a team of partners, mentors, advisors, and investors who have substantial experience in starting, operating, and selling startups.

FinTech

The Fintech Times

AUGUST 15, 2024

These agreements mark a significant milestone in NOW Money’s mission to provide accessible and inclusive financial services to the underserved migrant worker population in the GCC. Engage also aims to help advisors to deliver personalised advice by integrating with systems, including Salesforce, Docusign, Microsoft and Google.

FinTech

The Fintech Times

MAY 19, 2024

It provides capital and also drives value creation through a multidisciplinary team of operating advisors to deliver superior risk-adjusted outcomes to all stakeholders. AFC provides a terrific forum to discuss emerging trends, to educate stakeholders, and to address investment and growth challenges.”

FinTech

The Fintech Times

APRIL 3, 2024

Located at the Fintech Innovation Hub by Delaware Tech Park on the University of Delaware campus, CAFE is a non-profit organisation that advances financial health and wellness for low to moderate-income (LMI) and other underserved populations through fintech innovation and partnerships.

FinTech

Fintech News

APRIL 10, 2025

It acts as a fund investment platform and fiduciary advisor for individuals, family offices, charities, endowments, and institutions, and applies latest technology to its asset management solutions. Since 2014, it has grown significantly in this underserved segment through technology and robust processes.

FinTech

PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Mark Lenhard, a PayPal veteran, is joining the board of Modo , bringing the experience of an operator, an advisor, and an investor, having completed work across the full stack of financial services. And he thinks that they’ve found an underserved market.

PayPal

Fintech Finance

JUNE 7, 2024

. “While financial institutions are beginning to engage with faster payments, their efforts to ensure financial inclusion are in the early stages, and much work needs to be done,” said David True, Partner at PayGility Advisors and the FIWG Survey Subgoup Lead.

Financial Inclusion

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

that include, “rapidly growing, yet underserved startup ecosystems,” the company said. . Co-founders Ryan Broshar and Natty Zola said the underserved ecosystems they’re focused on include “the North, the Rockies, and companies across the Techstars ecosystem,” reports said. .

Underserved

Faster Payments Council

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

They will discuss how the recently published white paper on "Faster Payments and Financial Inclusion" illustrates the pain points and barriers to financial inclusion, actions, and solutions to expand, requirements of the underserved, action and solutions for issues, and considerations for faster payment stakeholders.

FPC

Faster Payments Council

MARCH 15, 2023

Speakers: Craig Ramsey, ACI Worldwide; Stephanie Miracle, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Charles Harkness, Corporate One FCU; Andrew Gómez, Lipis Advisors 6:00pm-9:00pmCT: Evening Reception at No Other Pub, sponsored by Juniper Payments - A PSCU Company and Ripple Join us for a fun-filled networking event with fellow FPC Members.

FPC

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Now, startups have zeroed in on the opportunity to create retirement offerings that cut down on fees and deliver a better user experience, following the playbook fintechs used with robo-advisors. Fintech companies focused on wealth management continue to gain popularity over traditional advisors. Sound familiar? Wealth Tech.

FinTech

Fintech News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Platforms such as Grab and Gojek embed services like micro-lending and mobile payments, providing essential financial tools to communities that have been traditionally underserved by banks. This virtual financial advisor provides tailored investment guidance and portfolio management 24/7. Similarly, DBS PayLah!

Stablecoins

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

and funds linked to Jennison, Senator Investment Group LP, Casdin and Perceptive Advisors. The company said it serves “historically underserved and rural markets” and is benefitting from “favorable demographic tailwinds.”. In an interview with CNBC's Squawk Box on Tuesday, Palihapitiya said the company is “on an operating margin basis.

Underserved

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 24, 2015

DRAFT’s mobile app targets millenials with $100,000 to $1 million to invest and are underserved by traditional financial advisors. 3) Build rapport between client and advisor. Using the in-app sharing capability, users can send results to financial advisors to hold them accountable. Raised $1 million seed funding.

Advisors

Fintech News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In line with the global push for inclusive finance, the festival will also address the strategies and tools that will enable equitable access and usage of financial services and products to the underserved.

FinTech

PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2017

Also joining the board is Ajay Mookerjee, an eFinance entrepreneur and experienced credit card executive from Capital One, GE, Suntrust and Booz Allen and current advisor on financial services strategies for Warburg Pincus. Pine Brook is working with the management team and the board of Fair Square Financial on the company’s strategy. “We

Credit Cards

The Fintech Times

JULY 24, 2024

” Innovative solutions Naeem Siddiqi , senior risk advisor at SAS , also says that developing countries are improving access to finance in several ways: Naeem Siddiqi , senior risk advisor at SAS “1. There is also the use of ‘social capital’ – i.e, appeared first on The Fintech Times.

Finance

The Fintech Times

JULY 16, 2024

These platforms provide much-needed capital to individuals, fostering entrepreneurship and economic growth in underserved communities. In Latin America, where 65 per cent of the population is unbanked, Aflore’s approach focuses on recruiting, training, and managing a network of mobile-enabled financial advisors for the middle class.

FinTech

CB Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The New York-based savings and brokerage startup aims to make it easier for underserved, lower-income users to invest in the stock market. Stash leverages education as a key differentiator among robo-advisors and uses a micro-investing model, which means users can make more frequent investments at fractional dollar amounts.

Underserved

Fintech News

MARCH 6, 2024

She also served as the director of Hong Stone Investment Development Limited, a Hong Kong-based investment company, and was an advisor to the University of Melbourne’s accelerator program. The startup targets underserved markets in the insurance space, such as the poor, students and startups.

APACS

Finovate

MAY 7, 2024

This discussion on “the new customer base” focuses on areas of innovation – such as investing, credit building and repair, and savings – that underserved populations often struggle to access. This year at FinovateSpring, we will address these ideas through sessions such as our Executive Briefing on Financial Inclusion.

AI

PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2017

LendUp exists to offer personal loans to the underserved in the hopes of helping them build the credit they need to move them into the financial mainstream. In addition to the funding, LendUp announced that Carrie Dolan, CFO of Metromile and former CFO of Lending Club, is joining LendUp as a board advisor. LendUp Gets a New (Pay)Pal.

PayPal

Fintech Review

MARCH 25, 2025

Similarly, robo-advisors like Wealthify or Nutmeg introduce young users to passive investing strategies with minimal effort. Addressing Financial Inclusion Through Financial Literacy Fintech apps have a critical role in promoting financial inclusion, especially for younger generations historically underserved by traditional banks.

Financial Literacy