The Payments Association

MARCH 19, 2025

Regions like Africa are seeing digital wallets driving financial inclusion, as seen with M-Pesa, which has connected millions of unbanked individuals to financial services. Technological advancements, including NFC, QR codes, and biometric authentication, have made digital wallets more user-friendly and secure.

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Digital Payments Finance Online and Mobile Banking Payments 88

The Payments Association

JANUARY 21, 2025

In 2024, stablecoins are increasingly integrated into mainstream systems, with Visa and Mastercard enabling their use across CeFi and DeFi platforms. Payments providers will need to prioritise interoperability and compliance to unlock growth while addressing security and volatility concerns. and Brazil.

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Faster Payments Council

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

They will discuss how the recently published white paper on "Faster Payments and Financial Inclusion" illustrates the pain points and barriers to financial inclusion, actions, and solutions to expand, requirements of the underserved, action and solutions for issues, and considerations for faster payment stakeholders.

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Finovate

MARCH 7, 2025

Its fair to say that traditional financial systems left many people and communities underserved, but LPMsfrom mobile wallets in Africa to RTP schemes like UPI in Indiabridge this gap, and theyre empowering billions of consumers to participate in the digital economy. Sadad teamed up with Mastercard to enhance digital payments in Qatar.

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Payments Push-to-Card Online and Mobile Banking P2P 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

The letter highlighted the role of faster payments as a panacea to financial inclusion problems in the U.S. The Fed’s real-time payments proposal, FIN says, will address these issues with a new, modern and interoperable system. It isn’t real-time, but it seems good enough for a lot of use cases.

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Faster Payments Council

AUGUST 23, 2024

Hear considerations including user experience, transaction routing, payments risk management, and navigating interoperability. This panel will discuss the classification system and how it can be utilized by the industry to drive consistency and combat scams. 14 seconds.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Furthermore, a closer look will be taken at digital assets, including stablecoins, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and tokenised deposits, focusing specifically on interoperability and regulations.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

The idea is to “promote global interoperability across EMV QR Code payments,” the standards group said in a statement. The QR Code has been enjoying some love and attention over the past few weeks, though the prospects for the digital payment tool remain relatively limited outside of Asia, at least according to one report.

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Financial Inclusion EMV Payments Tools Online and Mobile Banking 48

The Fintech Times

MARCH 26, 2024

As of April 2023, there were 1,000 active fintechs in Latin America (LatAm) with a vast majority focusing on financial inclusion, tackling the issue of 70 per cent of the population not having access to formal financial services.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2017

Identity is key, fostering both financial inclusion — to the tune of 270 million new bank accounts as of March 2017 — and security for the transactions themselves. Aadhaar, to jog your memory, or perhaps jumpstart it, is a 12-digit ID that houses a wealth of data, both demographic and biometric. Mobile reigns here.

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Online and Mobile Banking ATM Push-to-Card Financial Inclusion 44

Faster Payments Council

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Here our experts discuss the challenges and opportunities for establishing interoperable directory capabilities in the United States. We will explore the launch of FedNow and the intricacies of operating with multiple instant networks. The panel will also examine leading practices to help FIs and corporates mitigate these risks.

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The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Another stand-out feature of our business is the interoperability we offer large and complex enterprises who require a solution that can access the entire ecosystem without restriction. Thats another way were removing friction from payments, and making the ecosystem even more interoperable.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Similarly, Bharat QR Code is an interoperable technology solution designed to enable the massive shift to digital payments for over a billion people — and a single steep jump from a cash-only economy to a digital economy of which it is hard to overstate the magnitude.

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The Payments Association

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“Global regulations around national and international payment services are expected to adapt to the rapid digitalisation of financial services and the increasing prominence and use of digital wallets and alternative payment methods. The expansion of real-time payment systems through digital wallets is expected to accelerate this trend.

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Fintech News

MARCH 23, 2025

billion valuation in its latest funding round , having raised a total of USD $742 million from investors like Sequoia Capital India, Tiger Global, MasterCard, and Salesforce, just to name a few. billion thaks to investors such as Flipkart, Mastercard, PayPal Ventures, and Temasek Holdings. Today, they are valued at USD $2.28

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