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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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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.

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ACH Fraud Is Rising - And New NACHA Measure Leaves Gaps

FICO

NACHA, the payments clearing house through which ACH transactions flow, reported a banner year in 2020, posting an 8.2% Specifically, ACH Originators of WEB debit entries are required to use a “commercially reasonable fraudulent transaction detection system” to screen WEB debits for fraud. increase in volume and a 10.8%

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

In the same way that Square built a payment-centric ecosystem for brick-and-mortar SMBs and micro-merchants, Stripe has reinvented online payment acceptance. In its Q3’19 10-Q, Square said Capital had originated 85,000 loans totaling $563M, up 38% year-over-year. Source: Square. Business lending & corporate cards.

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If Facebook Wants To Be WeChat, Why Did It Launch Libra?

PYMNTS

And all of them – developed and developing – use regulated rails, bank accounts and compliant fiat currencies to remove user confusion and friction, establish trust, enable merchant acceptance and accelerate market entry and scale. But as I said in my original piece , they couldn’t have made it any more complicated.