The Fintech Times

JANUARY 23, 2025

We often explore how fintechs are changing the banking and payments landscapes, and sometimes look into how their solutions are supporting financial inclusion and helping people develop healthy financial habits.

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Fintech Review

APRIL 11, 2025

Over the years, weve covered a broad range of fintech topics from digital banking to decentralised finance , regtech , green fintech , and more. This includes services like mobile banking, peer-to-peer payments, investment platforms, and blockchain applications. Consumer trust in banks plummeted.

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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.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 9, 2024

NOW Money , one of the leading inclusive digital payroll and banking platform for migrant workers, today announced its new strategic partnership with Mastercard , a global technology company in the payments industry. Customers can handle payments, transfers, and other financial operations directly from their mobile phones.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 21, 2025

Offa , the UK Islamic property finance fintech, is joining Connect IFA , a specialist mortgage brokerage network. It plans to leverage its Islamic finance industry experience via engagement with Connect IFA through events and webinars to raise awareness of its ethical finance products, designed in accordance with Islamic finance principles.

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Fintech Review

JULY 24, 2024

We will explore success stories, the pivotal role of mobile money , and the unique challenges faced. The Role of Mobile Money Mobile money is a cornerstone of fintech in emerging markets. In many parts of Africa, mobile money services have seen explosive growth. In India, Paytm has revolutionised digital payments.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 27, 2025

Moniepoint , a Nigeria-based fintech offering an all-in-one banking, credit, and cross-border payment solution for African businesses and their customers, is on a mission to help businesses and individuals digitise their operations. to provide infrastructure and payment solutions for banks and financial institutions.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Orange Middle East and Africa (OMEA) ( www.Orange.com ) and Mastercard have announced a strategic partnership to expand access to mobile financial services across Sub-Saharan Africa. The partnership will be rolled out in seven countries including Cameroon, Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

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Finovate

JANUARY 30, 2024

Trucking industry software platform Trucker Path announced this week it has tapped online lending marketplace Lendio to embed small business lending tools within its mobile app. Trucking businesses can access Lendio’s financing tool within the Trucker Path mobile app.

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Finextra

JULY 3, 2025

That means actual funds reside in their account inside your system, not just a link to their card or bank. It simply facilitates transactions by linking to your customers existing financial instruments, like bank accounts or credit/debit cards. Digital wallets, meanwhile, appeal to digitally active, banked customers.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 24, 2024

A lack of access to credit and finance can cause issues for people worldwide, regardless of the countries they live in. Where the problem is felt most acutely, however, is generally in developing countries – so, now, we’re shining a spotlight on them, to see how they are approaching improving access to finance.

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Fintech Finance

MAY 29, 2025

With the launch of a new payment system, the platform now automates the collection of funds into integrated business bank accounts—aiming to double its transaction volume via SEPA Instant. “At YowPay, our mission is to simplify SEPA transfers for merchants across Europe.

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Fintech News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Asia Pacific point-of-sale payment methods – Select markets, Source: Beyond Payments: Digitalization Trends in the Cross-Border Checkout Revolution, Deloitte, Jul 2024 Payment interoperability The growth of digital payment innovations in APAC has emphasized the need for connectivity and interoperability in both online and offline transactions.

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Finextra

JUNE 11, 2025

Indigenous Banking (Shroffs and Mahajans): Long before modern banks, India had a thriving indigenous banking system. They were crucial for financing trade routes within India and internationally. These banks introduced formal ledger-based accounting and cheque payments. This was labor-intensive and time-consuming.

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Electronic Transactions Association

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The report, Advancing Economic Inclusion—Empowering Underserved Communities with Fintech , highlights the innovative products and services revolutionizing the way commerce is conducted through safe, secure, convenient, and rewarding solutions.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Here are the finalists for the SFF 2024 awards: Category #1 Corporates – Emerging Fintech Finalists Fluid Financial Pte Ltd Fluid is a Singapore-based B2B Buy Now Pay Later solution, helping suppliers (both traditional and marketplace platforms) to finance buyers’ purchases at the point of checkout.

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Fintech Finance

MAY 9, 2024

This revolutionary service provides over 5 million Lebanese citizens with the ability to manage their payments securely and transparently for local and international purchases without needing a bank account. Through Wink Pay, we can simplify and digitize customer onboarding, as well as facilitate online payments.

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Fintech News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

However, recent stringent regulations imposed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have significantly impacted the sector, leading many fintech companies to reassess their BNPL strategies. 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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Fintech News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Embedded Finance In An All-in-One Digital Ecosystem Singapores fintech trends for 2025 are defined by the rise of all-in-one digital ecosystemscommonly referred to as super appsthat seamlessly integrate embedded finance at their core. CBDCs provide a secure and efficient alternative to traditional money.

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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. Founded in 2015, Investree is a Jakarta-based alternative finance player.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

Consumers in the Philippines are demanding so much from online technologies, that research from Digido , the Filipino online lender, has found the digital lending market could reach $1billion in the second half of 2025. Digido revealed that in terms of market structure, non-bank digital lenders are expected to make up 55.2

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Traditional banking products, including checking, credit, and savings accounts, are under threat from a new crop of digital-first startups. Many of these startups are launching products without a bank charter and targeting a very specific customer base. DOWNLOAD THE 61-PAGE consumer banking REPORT. savings accounts.

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Fintech News

APRIL 10, 2025

From bustling megacities to remote villages, digital finance is breaking down barriers, giving millions access to banking, credit, and investment opportunities for the first time. Here, we spotlight the fastest-growing Asia Pacific fintechs leading the charge in the future of finance in 2025.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2017

Merchants and consumers alike have a host of reasons to love financing. That is, if the merchant is sufficiently large enough that it can either offer its own financing in-house or attract one of the major store-branded card players to collaborate on developing the offering. Everybody wins.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 28, 2024

. “SteelWave Digital can further bridge the financial accessibility gap by expanding its strategic partnerships with global liquidity providers to enhance capital flows into underserved markets. “Fintechs working to bridge this gap should focus on developing a superior user experience within the online platform and mobile channel.

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Neopay

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

New research from Economist Impact supported by Temenos finds that European banks are fighting back against competition from platform players, neobanks and payment providers. European banks are also migrating core banking systems to public cloud and SaaS in greater numbers than their counterparts in other regions.

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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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Fintech News

MARCH 6, 2024

Prior to Airwallex, Liu worked as an investment consultant for banking firm China International Capital Corporation (CICC) in Shanghai. She was listed on the Forbes’ 30 under 30 Asia 2017: Finance and Venture Capital list and on the SmartCompany’s Smart 30 Under 30 2019 list.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 16, 2024

The terms ethical finance and ethical banking often go hand in hand with climate awareness and focusing on net zero. Platforms like Kiva facilitate microloans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, often those who lack access to traditional banking services. However, they are not restricted to the climate.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

It may not be the year of mobile payments — yet — but it is certainly the year mobile payments players are laying the groundwork for what they know is inevitable. This week, PYMNTS dug into the week of mobile pay news to bring you the latest from the ecosystem. Early Warning Boosts Big Banks’ P2P Power.

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Fintech News

MARCH 26, 2024

The World Bank flagged in October 2023 that the region’s burgeoning economies would decelerate to 4.5% 1 SafeGold (India) SafeGold operates a digital gold platform, allowing customers to buy, sell, gift, and redeem gold online. 2 Alami Sharia (Indonesia) Alami Sharia specialises in Sharia-compliant peer-to-peer lending.

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Fintech Finance

MAY 16, 2024

Cooperative Bank of Oromia and Mastercard have unveiled a groundbreaking collaboration with the launch of the Coopbank Prepaid Mastercard and the introduction of the Community Pass technology in Ethiopia. Transactions will be effortless through a dedicated mobile application, providing efficient card management capabilities.

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Clearly Payments

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Bank of America launched the BankAmericard in 1958, widely considered the first credit card available to consumers, which eventually evolved into Visa. In 1966, a group of California banks formed the Interbank Card Association (ICA), later known as Master Charge and then Mastercard.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Small business banking provider BlueVine announced Tuesday (Nov. million in a Series F round of equity financing. The funding will be used to further build and scale BlueVine’s banking platform, which boasts a business checking account that integrates with BlueVine’s existing suite of online financing products.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

These trends included double-digit gross payment volume (GPV) growth, as measured year on year, double-digit transaction gains and traction in newer technology offerings — such as point-of-sale (POS) financing to help sellers log their own top-line growth. Elsewhere on the call, he said the card can help underserved, underbanked sellers.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

per cent this year and six per cent next year, according to the Asian Development Bank. Despite these advancements, about 30 per cent of the adult population remains underserved in financial services. million in 2022, and during the same period, online payment transactions soared to 1 billion, amounting to $272.8billion in total.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Banks offer credit limits to borrowers that would seem punitively low in much of the Western world, so there is a pent-up demand for online alternatives. X Financial specializes in helping underserved prime borrowers and mass affluent investors in China by matching those borrowers with investors willing to loan them money.

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