Fintech Review

MAY 6, 2025

Company Overview: From Niche Provider to Global Checkout.com began as a cross-border payments solution focused on emerging e-commerce markets. Over time, it expanded into a full-service payment service provider, offering acquiring, processing, gateway, and fraud management services through a single, unified platform.

Payment APIs and Integration

Fintech News

MAY 29, 2025

Wing began in 2008 as one of Cambodias first mobile payment service providers, created to offer accessible and affordable financial services for the unbanked and underbanked. It eventually evolved into a specialized bank in 2014 and was granted a full commercial banking license in 2020.

Instant Payments

Fintech News

APRIL 24, 2025

billion HashKey Group is a digital asset financial services provider. Based in Hong Kong, the group provides services for institutional and professional investors worldwide, including trading, custody, asset management, and venture capital. billion payment service provider Yubi 1.5 BharatPe Valuation: $2.85

FinTech

Fintech Finance

MARCH 19, 2025

Epos Now , a leading global AI-driven point-of-sale (POS) provider, today announces a strategic partnership with Lloyds Cardnet , one of the UK’s biggest card payment service providers.

Point-of-Sale (POS)

The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 18, 2024

It also reduces costs through resource sharing, enhances system resilience, and supports economic inclusion by expanding access to financial services for underserved groups. Over these years, CBI has developed several open banking and open finance services and achieved a variety of goals at national and international level.

Finance

Clearly Payments

JULY 22, 2025

Because traditional Canadian banks and processors avoid these sectors, high-risk merchants rely on a patchwork of service providers. Opportunities for Canada's Payments Industry Despite the challenges, high-risk payments represent one of the most underserved and profitable segments in Canada.

Risk

The Fintech Times

JULY 30, 2025

Pockit and Monese’s Income Advance services provide short-term credit with no interest, no hard credit checks and automatic repayment from income, offering a safety net and reducing reliance on high-cost or unregulated lenders.

Underserved

The Fintech Times

JULY 17, 2025

Therefore, this July, we explore how the fintech industry can further increase financial inclusion in developing markets, identify regional trends and remove barriers to digital services. “One of the strangest barriers we’ve seen is actually too much paperwork for ‘simple’ digital services.

FinTech

The Fintech Times

AUGUST 7, 2025

Its model breaks from tradition: the Bank doesn’t lend or leverage deposits, and instead provides real-time infrastructure built to support a wide range of financial services providers. The fintech and payment services sectors are amongst the most disadvantaged.

Settlement

The Fintech Times

JANUARY 21, 2025

Netbank has partnered with Discovery Credit Solutions Corp (DCSC) to introduce a financial service solution designed to streamline loan management and improve financial access for underserved communities.The solution enables Discovery Credit Solutions to efficiently manage loan disbursements, collections as well as account reconciliation.

FinTech

Finextra

AUGUST 4, 2025

If, say, a payments company stops servicing a certain region due to AML concerns, that’s lost revenue (and leaves underserved customers), a cost that stronger compliance tools might have averted. mixing services, DeFi protocols) and regulators worldwide have been rapidly extending AML laws to cover crypto activities.

AML

Finextra

JULY 28, 2025

And why is this segment often underserved by traditional financial institutions? Yes, keep me informed No, thanks Would you like to receive emails from Finextra on behalf of third parties products, events and services? Discover why and how non-banks are increasingly filling this gap.

Cross-Border

Finovate

JUNE 27, 2025

By leveraging alternative data at scale, TransUnion’s partnership with Omnisient will enable more new-to-credit and credit-underserved consumers to begin building a credit profile and start the journey toward greater, long-term financial empowerment and opportunity.

Acquirers

Finovate

JULY 18, 2025

Nearly a third of the French population meets this qualification, yet Skarlett founders Townley Le Guénédal, Benjamin Gaignault, and Aurélien Gouttefarde have wagered that these seniors are being underserved by conventional financial institutions. Cybersecurity and IT services provider Intersys launched in India.

Cash Management

The Fintech Times

JULY 21, 2025

Cybersecurity and IT services provider Intersys is launching operations in India in a move to help insurers and brokers grow their cyber insurance business by improving the cyber risk profile of policyholders.

Risk Assessment

Payments Source

MARCH 14, 2017

PayPal's February acquisition of TIO Networks is the latest example of a growing trend of financial services providers targeting the underserved, developing products that bring the cash-heavy group into the digital payments fold.

Underserved

The Fintech Times

AUGUST 20, 2024

Insurtech Igloo is joining forces with TrueMoney , a Thailand-based e-payment and financial service provider, to make essential insurance products available via the TrueMoney application, enhancing accessibility, affordability and convenience for users.

Underserved

Fintech News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

GMO Payment Gateway, a Japanese payment and financial services provider, has invested US$3 million in the Helicap Income Opportunities Fund. Helicap, a fintech firm focusing on private debt opportunities, aims to address Southeast Asia’s US$500 billion funding gap by providing capital to underserved sectors.

Payment Gateways

PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Think of access to reliable internet service, perhaps, as roughly similar to access to reliable and secure financial services — without both, the larger worlds of payment and commerce can indeed suffer. Even the dominating eCommerce and web services provider in the U.S. communities. Expensive Cities. Amazon’s Role.

Underserved

Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Mollie, one of Europe’s fastest-growing financial service providers, has appointed Dave Smallwood as its UK Managing Director. Mollie Capital: Providing working capital solutions with minimal paperwork so merchants can secure funds quickly. At Mollie, we’re committed to changing this narrative.

FinTech

Payments Source

JANUARY 17, 2020

remains to be a very lucrative market for issuing banks and card networks, as well as a host of alternative financial service providers catering to younger, underserved consumers. While not as large as the U.S. both in number of people and number of credit card owners, the U.K.

Credit Cards

Fintech News

AUGUST 20, 2024

Insurtech firm Igloo has teamed up with TrueMoney , Thailand’s e-payment and financial services provider, to offer insurance products directly through the latter’s application. TrueMoney, known for its focus on financial inclusion, provides users with services like mobile money transfers and bill payments.

Financial Inclusion

Fintech News

JULY 31, 2024

Nium’s new local currency account services provide businesses, digital platforms, and marketplaces with a more efficient and cost-effective way to receive payments, eliminating the need for local entities or additional operating accounts.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Operating in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, Validus utilises proprietary data and AI to provide financing solutions to underserved SMEs. Validus will use the fresh funds to accelerate its expansion plans in fast-growing markets like Indonesia as well as enhance its technology innovation.

Due Diligence

Electronic Transactions Association

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

. – FEBRUARY 21, 2023 – The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), the trade association for the payments technology industry, today released its annual white paper outlining a variety of financial technology products and services that have broadened access to the payments and financial services ecosystems.

Underserved

PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2020

was formed in 2009 as a payment services provider to enable businesses to accept card payments. The platform has been expanded to include point-of-sale payments, financing and other services. We’re now focused on the work ahead to build out Square Financial Services and open our bank to small business customers.”.

FDIC

Fintech News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The company operates primarily through mobile and online platforms, offering a wide range of financial services such as loans, deposits, and wealth management. Payong highlighted the importance of virtual banking and technology in reducing costs related to physical branches and improving access to financial services for underserved groups.

Online and Mobile Banking

Fintech News

APRIL 3, 2024

According to Oliver Wyman, women constitute the single largest underserved group of customers in the financial services industry. This demographic faces several barriers that impede their access to financial services. This is due to their higher loyalty, higher CLV, and lower default risk compared to men.

Financial Inclusion

The Fintech Times

AUGUST 14, 2024

Al Fardan Exchange, a financial services provider in the UAE, has partnered with the Dubai AI & Web3 Festival 2024 reflecting its commitment to advancing AI integration within the financial sector as well as supporting the UAE’s vision for a digitally advanced economy.

AI

Wharton Fintech

DECEMBER 6, 2023

link] Key takeaways from our discussion: How digital technologies and fintechs have unleashed innovation in commercial banking SMEs are potentially the largest underserved category in financial services globally because the complexities of running a business and the distraction of financial services to running that business are really significant.

Underserved

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

She said the global pandemic has simply advanced a movement that has been underway for years, which has sought to provide banking access and digital financial services to underserved communities, mostly through mobile devices.

P2P

Fintech Finance

JULY 23, 2024

.” “This not only underscores our commitment to innovation, but also aligns seamlessly with our vision of fostering a borderless financial ecosystem where moving money everywhere is instant, reliable and compliant, especially to underserved consumers. We estimate that we are reaching 600m unbanked consumers.”

SWIFT

The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This is particularly impactful as freelancers have traditionally been underserved in Latin America, and Colombia is no different. Using inDrive Money, freedom of choice for both service users and service providers is ensured.

Financial Inclusion

Fintech Finance

APRIL 4, 2024

CAB Payments Europe has secured a payment service provider licence with De Nederlandsche Bank N.V., (DNB) DNB) to provide services in the Netherlands and the ability to exercise passporting rights to offer its services across the EEA. We have long seen Europe as an important market for the Group.

Service Provider

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Mastercard and global non-profit Accion have announced a first-of-its-kind partnership to transform millions of underserved micro and small businesses around the world. Micro-merchants, such as grocers and “mom and pop” stores, operate largely in cash rather than through safe, secure and swift, digitally enabled transactions.

Visa

The Fintech Times

MAY 29, 2024

The Interledger Foundation , an organisation building and advocating for an open, interoperable payment network, is introducing a new initiative to fund fintechs that leverage its Interledger Protocol (ILP) to bring payment capabilities to emerging markets and underserved populations.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

According to the company, bank.VISION provides customers with the benefit they would have with a standard bank account across all digital channels, including iOS and Android mobile devices. billion adults around the world that are being underserved by the traditional retail bank. The company went on to note that there are 2.5

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