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Finovate Global Netherlands: Investing in Digital Banking and Innovating with AI

Finovate

Netherlands-based digital banking platform Plumery secured $3.3 Founded in 2022, Plumery offers a digital banking platform that enables businesses to rapidly customize and deploy their banking operations. This week’s edition of Finovate Global features recent fintech news and headlines from the Netherlands.

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Finovate Global Mexico: Banorte’s Digital Bank, Amazon’s BNPL Partnership with Kueski Pay

Finovate

First up is news that Grupo Financiero Banorte has launched Mexico’s first fully digital bank, bineo. The new digital bank also offers financing products for bineo account holders. The bank also pledges competitive rates and instant access to funds once loans are approved. The company noted that it hopes to add 2.8

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Meet the 40 Fastest Growing Fintechs in Asia Pacific According to the Financial Times

Fintech News

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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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

A 2018 survey by Bank of America shows that millennials’ top financial priorities were saving for emergency funds (64%), saving for retirement (49%), and saving to buy a house (33%) — not much different from the concerns their baby boomer parents had 30 years ago. From big banks to big tech. From big banks to big tech.

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Mortgage Tech 101: What It Is & Why It’s Taking Off Now

CB Insights

Originating, processing, and underwriting a home loan with a large bank lender still requires faxes and snail mail and take almost as long as it did 20 years. Non-bank lenders are becoming much bigger players in mortgages. In 2011, three banks accounted for half of new mortgage loans, according to the Washington Post.

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How Home Became The Hub For The Digital Economy

PYMNTS

Alexa wasn’t the first voice assistant in the race to catch consumers’ attention — Apple’s Siri beat her to the punch in 2011. percent also reported having bought retail goods online in the last 24 hours. The effect is even more pronounced when it comes to non-grocery retail journeys.

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

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billion, revenue was up 45 percent, profits were up 71 percent and mobile was driving a stunning 87 percent of ad revenue, just to highlight a few of the notable and impressive headlines. When Tencent made the move to mobile and launched WeChat in 2011, it had to persuade QQ users to download and use the WeChat app.

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