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SFF 2024 Awards Highlights Fintech Innovation with Updated Categories, New AI Focus

Fintech News

Over 200 submissions were received across six categories, with 175 entries in the corporate categories and 29 in the individual Fintech Mentor Award category. Each day, approximately 500 micro and small business owners use their app to apply/request for a business loan. Four finalists were shortlisted in each category.

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How Blockchain Tech Could Disrupt Real Estate

CB Insights

Additionally, real estate investing often involves expensive intermediaries such as fund managers, further raising the barrier to entry. This approach makes it easier to establish a market for property “micro-shares,” creating the potential for a property to effectively have numerous co-owners with a stake in potential returns.

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The metaverse could be tech’s next trillion-dollar opportunity: These are the companies making it a reality

CB Insights

Bridging micro-vibrations, pneumatic systems for force resistance, and motion tracking, this technology can give the impression that digital objects have texture, stiffness, and weight. Headsets (VR): These companies are developing VR goggles — currently considered the main entry point to metaverse applications.

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Sleepless In 2017: The Eight Big Shifts That Should Keep FIs, Retailers and Payments Execs Up At Night

PYMNTS

They’re doing that at the same time regulators seem to be working overtime to put traditional banks at a competitive disadvantage. For consumers to decide that messaging apps are their new commerce point of entry will require that the apps within them get much smarter and the user interface much slicker. Commerce Gets Conversational.

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Sleepless In 2017: The Eight Big Shifts That Should Keep FIs, Retailers and Payments Execs Up At Night

PYMNTS

They’re doing that at the same time regulators seem to be working overtime to put traditional banks at a competitive disadvantage. For consumers to decide that messaging apps are their new commerce point of entry will require that the apps within them get much smarter and the user interface much slicker. Commerce Gets Conversational.

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Top 6 Banking Trends That Is Roaring Throughout Asia in 2025

Fintech News

Regulators are working to ensure that consumer consent and data security are prioritised. All of this can be made possible by lowering barriers to entry for new players and promoting interoperability. Furthermore, regulators across Asia are introducing frameworks to govern the ethical use of AI.