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Deep Dive: Plaid - Products, Tech, and Business

Finextra

Instead of waiting days for micro-deposits, a fintech app can use Plaid Auth to confirm a bank account in seconds, enabling features like funding a neobank account or paying a friend on Venmo. Portions of the content may be reproduced verbatim from the original source, and full credit is provided with a "Source: [Name]" attribution.

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Understanding Zero Trust Network Access and Why Needs It

VISTA InfoSec

ZTNA also verifies the identities of all parties seeking entry into the network before granting them access, while ensuring that network endpoints remain secure at all times. Another aspect of ZTNA is network micro-segmentation, where networks can be segmented into smaller networks.

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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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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Originally launched in 2015, Qapital has raised $51M in funding to date and gained roughly 420,000 users, who have reportedly saved nearly $500M. Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. As of 2018, the app had 3.7M

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Twitter Payments

Finance Magnates

It has the ability to send micro messages, which is fantastic; it has Spaces where you can host or join live audio conversations and discussions. Introducing Twitter Micro Payments Today, on Twitter, you can like or retweet a tweet at best. How Would Micro-Payments Work in the Twitter Ecosystem? Interesting question.

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5 Keys to Managing Merchant Risk in Onboarding & Monitoring

FICO

As already indicated, given the current climate and the different landscape of online only micro-merchants, this process is too long. . Ingesting internal data from disparate sources eliminates manual data entry and reduces judgmental underwriting decisioning while creating consistency through automation.

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13 Southeast Asian Fintechs Among CNBC’s Global Top 250 List

Fintech News

The company offers innovative digital financial services aimed at empowering local and regional micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The company’s platform integrates these services into a single entry point on the Grab app, catering to consumers who prefer accessing all their digital financial services on one integrated platform.