Fintech Finance

JUNE 10, 2025

Visa’s new AI-enabled solutions offer regional partners including AI platforms, fintechs, banks, and merchants a seamless way to connect to the Visa network to deliver secure, frictionless payment experiences. Visa is also collaborating with local banks in Vietnam to launch Flex Credential in the next few months.

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Finovate

MARCH 7, 2025

As a proliferation of payment options promises to streamline banking and commerce, regulators, fintechs, and financial services companies are looking for ways to make sure that the challenges to these new payment optionsfrom technical complexity to new forms of fraud and financial crimeare met. And thats a really positive development.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 21, 2025

EAZY Financial Services ‘EazyPay’, a Bahraini financial institution specialising in point-of-sale (POS) and online payment gateway acquiring services, has teamed up with Tarabut , the MENA region’s regulated open banking platform. Conister Bank Limited has launched an online deposit system for its UK retail customers.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 26, 2025

Appointments Open banking fintech Yaspa has named Chris Lowe as chief financial officer. More appointments TBC Uzbekistan, the digital banking arm of London-listed TBC Bank Group, has formed a new supervisory board for its holding company, TBC Digital.

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Fintech News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In Asia-Pacific (APAC), the payment landscape is rapidly evolving, driven by the integration of advanced technologies, growing use of alternative payment methods and the rise of digital currencies. APAC leads the world in digital wallet adoption. BNPL, in particular, has surged, rising from accounting for 1.6%

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Fintech News

MAY 28, 2024

The meteoric ascent of Brazilian neobank Nubank has sent shockwaves through the Latin American banking industry. As digital banks in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region aim to replicate this success, there are valuable lessons to be learned from the unconventional Nubank approach to banking.

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Fintech News

AUGUST 26, 2024

It’s a tale of a cultural shift, governments and innovators working in tandem, and millions leapfrogging traditional banking to embrace a mobile-first approach to finance. The APAC digital wallet phenomenon The meteoric rise of digital wallets in APAC is no accident.

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Fintech News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A new report by Deloitte delves into the latest developments in the cross-border payment sector in Asia-Pacific (APAC), identifying four major trends reshaping the landscape and offering significant opportunities for merchants. The APAC region led this trend, contributing nearly two-thirds of global spending, with a combined US$9.8

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In the great digital shift , the mobile device is the point of sale — especially in Asia’s fast-growing markets. The conversation came against a backdrop where online transaction volumes and mobile wallet adoption are increasing. Donlea noted that mobile wallets are designed for consumer and brand loyalty.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In Asia-Pacific (APAC), fraud is becoming an increasingly serious challenge for financial institutions, an issue that has been exacerbated by the rapid adoption of digital transactions and online banking. A year later, Kathmandu-based NIC Asia Bank suffered a major heist, with hackers managing to make about US$4.4

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Fintech News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

With 355 million gamers contributing to an expected US$14 billion market in 2024, LatAm is emerging as a major growth region for global gaming companies, presenting considerable opportunities for Asia-Pacific (APAC) firms, according to Eduardo de Abreu, Vice President of Product at EBANX, a leader in localized payment solutions.

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Fintech News

MARCH 6, 2024

In celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day on 8 March, the Fintech News Network is unveiling its selection of ten of the most influential female fintech leaders in Asia Pacific (APAC). Their influence goes beyond their own organisations, significantly impacting the fintech sector across the entire APAC region.

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Fintech News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Notably, North America saw a 30% rise in attack rates, in contrast to declines in Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), where rates dropped by 15% and 24%, respectively. According to the report, human-initiated attacks in financial services rose to 1.2% last year, up 8% year-over-year (YoY).

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FICO

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Six in ten banks in Asia Pacific said that they are experiencing application fraud using synthetic identities and a further one in five banks told us that their fraudulent applications for credit cards now sits between five to 10 percent of all applications. Discover more about the technology that drives common point of purchase.

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Fintech News

JULY 16, 2024

Global analytics software leader FICO unveiled its latest global consumer fraud research , highlighting that complex identity checks are stalling Singapore’s digital banking progress. This increase in identity checks by Singapore banks is a direct response to the significant issue of identity theft in the country.

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FICO

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Banking is one of the most regulated industries in the world, often saddled with antiquated regulations that are not keeping up with the digital world. Many believe these regulations have kept banks away from the benefits of cloud computing, in particular services hosted on a public cloud. The post Are Banks Embracing Public Cloud?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Filipino online payments platform PayMongo has come off a funding round with $12 million, according to a press release. The digital transactions are likely to meet the targets set by the country’s central bank. We fully support their vision to bring many more Filipino businesses online.

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Fintech News

MAY 7, 2024

Top 100 Cross-Border Payment Companies for 2024, Source: FXC Intelligence, Apr 2024 The Top 100 Cross-Border Payment Companies for 2024 list encompasses companies operating across consumer money transfers and remittances, business-to-business (B2B) payments, e-commerce companies, payment processors, mobile payments players and beyond.

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Fintech News

MARCH 26, 2024

In the sixth annual compendium of 500 burgeoning companies across the Asia Pacific (APAC) by the Financial Times and Statista , technology enterprises constitute nearly a third of the 2024 roster, with 8% of the APAC’s fastest-growing entities being fintech companies.

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Fintech News

JULY 23, 2024

The list, produced by CNBC in collaboration with market research firm Statista, highlights the world’s top 250 fintech companies across eight market categories: payments, wealthtech, business process solutions, neobanking, alternative finance, financial planning, digital assets and banking solutions. billion (US$4.4

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The 2024 winners were selected by a panel of key industry players representing organizations such as KKR, Granite Asia (formerly GGV Capital), Singapore’s InfoComm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Singapore Business Federation, Singapore-based global investor EDBI, SGX Group, DBS Bank, Northstar Group, and 65 Equity Partners.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In a press release Trulioo said it is expanding its reach into APAC countries to include coverage in Indonesia and Vietnam; and LATAM with Costa Rica, Colombia, and Argentina among others. Today’s increasingly digital world is reshaping the preferences and expectations of how consumers move money online, said Trulioo.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

From counterfeiting to identity theft to phishing attacks, digital fraud takes many forms — and online shopping continues to make consumers and merchants vulnerable to such attacks. The rise of mobile commerce and selling of digital goods has added to retailers’ fraud problems. By its measures, merchants pay $3.13 last year, a 6.5

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Fintech News

JUNE 20, 2024

Even more reassuring, 54% of FSIs surveyed in EMEA, USA, and APAC are already embedding AI into their offerings or expanding their initiatives, and 61% plan to use Gen AI in 2024. To overcome those barriers, Gen AI needs a payment processing platform with powerful data management and a 24/7 online front- and back-office.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It enables financial institutions, especially those without core banking systems or with systems lacking API integration, to manage bulk transactions. Integrated with bank accounts and digital wallets in Pakistan, Hakeem provides customers with easy disbursement options. ThitsaWorks Pte.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In 2022, the country was home to 993 active fintech companies, representing about 25% of all fintech ventures operating across the ASEAN region, data from a 2022 report by the United Overseas Bank (UOB), PwC Singapore and the Singapore Fintech Association (SFA) reveal. billion to US$15 billion during the period. in July 2023.

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Fintech News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) in India has experienced a rapid increase in adoption, with its share of e-commerce sales in Asia-Pacific (APAC) surging from just 0.1% Similarly, Slice, originally a BNPL firm, has transitioned to offering prepaid credit cards and is now merging with North East Small Finance Bank.

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Finovate

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In addition to its funding announcement, Nmbr also reported that RBCx, the technology and innovation arm of Royal Bank of Canada, will serve as the company’s banking partner. This week, the Canadian fintech announced that it is helping Multitude Bank enhance its loan repayment processes to enable instant loan repayments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Brexit may dominate the headlines when it comes to the United Kingdom, but FinTech funding proceeds apace, and financial backers show a continued sanguine attitude about the space. noted, Augmentum Capital led the iwoca fundraising, where participation also came from NIBC, a Dutch Bank and a number of other investors. 18 th ).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

This week’s roundup of Commercial Card Innovation also finds growing interest in digitizing and mobilizing the corporate card, either through virtual card generation or mobile wallet support, at a time when contactless payments remain on the upswing. BofA Expands Contactless Biz Card Service. and Canada in 2018.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Bank earnings — taken together, let’s call them a mixed bag. Thus: Some banks bested results, some didn’t. The embrace of such trends by consumers, younger ones, continues apace, and all banks that disclose such metrics reported gains in the digital, online and mobile users. million mobile active users.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 20, 2024

Not only were in-store payments affected, but the “vast majority” of online grocery orders were also unable to be delivered. Action is urgently needed to solve the UK’s banking deserts. Enhanced security and better protection as well as speed and convenience are some of the major pros we see touted by the experts.

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Fintech News

MARCH 18, 2024

The report, released in September 2023, looks at the Thai fintech sector, highlighting the rise of digital payments and the explosive growth of real-time transactions, as well as presenting the opportunities that exist in digital remittances, open banking, business-to-business (B2B) payments and agricultural lending.

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The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The first event was the introduction of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), a nonprofit organisation backed by India’s central bank and leading banks. In 2014, only 53 per cent of adults in India had bank accounts, but by 2021, this figure had risen to 78 per cent.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 30, 2024

While Dinning has previously worked at Freshfields, Shearman & Sterling, Ernst & Young, Barclays Bank, RiskMetrics Group and ISS. Most recently, Bronwyn served as CISO at fintech Mambu and led security transformation and AI enablement initiatives for TSB Bank. He was most recently head of APAC at Duco.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

According to the World Bank , China’s GDP per capita now exceeds $12,700, making it the world’s second-largest economy by nominal GDP, just behind the US. In the financial services sector, major institutions such as China Construction Bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), Bank of China and Ping An Insurance dominate.

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 8, 2024

Appointments Torpago , a commercial credit card and spend management provider for banks, hires Chris Boncimino , as head of business operations. He brings over two decades of experience in the financial services sector, having led business and technology teams at major banks and technology firms.

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