The Fintech Times

JANUARY 27, 2025

Mastercard, in collaboration with Money Fellows and Banque Misr, has launched a prepaid card in Egypt, aimed at enhancing financial inclusion and accessibility. per cent of Egyptians who are formally included in the financial system, offering features like online purchases, ATM transactions and exclusive discounts.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 9, 2024

NOW Money , one of the leading inclusive digital payroll and banking platform for migrant workers, today announced its new strategic partnership with Mastercard , a global technology company in the payments industry. Customers can handle payments, transfers, and other financial operations directly from their mobile phones.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 30, 2024

Mastercard hosted the second annual Mastercard Ghana Fintech Forum in Accra, bringing together key stakeholders and thought leaders in the fintech industry to discuss critical developments and foster collaboration. added Folasade Femi-Lawal, Country Manager and Area Business Head for West Africa at Mastercard.

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Fintech Finance

AUGUST 28, 2024

a fintech empowering consumers with innovative services for flexible money access, has announced a partnership with Mastercard to continue scaling payments and disbursements services in the public sector. It is an honor to partner with Mastercard, and continue driving innovation throughout the public sector,” said Stewart A.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Orange Middle East and Africa (OMEA) ( www.Orange.com ) and Mastercard have announced a strategic partnership to expand access to mobile financial services across Sub-Saharan Africa. Orange Money customers will be able to instantly obtain a virtual or physical debit card, linked directly to their Orange Money wallets.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Mastercard is marking National Women’s Small Business Month by furthering its support of the female-founded impact investment platform CNote with an infusion of $20 million, the company announced Friday (Oct. This investment is part of Mastercard’s push to “help close the racial wealth and opportunity gap.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

An Underserved Market. The goal of VamosPay is to provide the Latino community with a comprehensive suite of financial offerings that go beyond basic payment mechanisms, leveraging Mastercard ‘s network, technology and infrastructure offerings. Mastercard Accelerate. It’s an expensive and limiting place to be.”.

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Faster Payments Council

APRIL 29, 2021

During our Spring Conference earlier this month, we held a session called, "Faster Payments: Accelerating Financial Inclusion." Adam Telem, Vice President, Product Management, Mastercard, who moderated the session underscored a key concept being addressed by the FPC. "It one of the session's four panelists, added.

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Fintech Finance

MAY 9, 2024

A leading multinational bank, Access Bank Group , has today launched an innovative solution in collaboration with Mastercard to expand access to cross-border payments and remittances to and from the continent, bringing Africa closer to the global economy.

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Félix Pago , a Miami-based fintech startup that developed a chat-based platform using blockchain and artificial intelligence to enable Latino workers in the US to send money back to their families in Latin America via WhatsApp, has announced a partnership with Mastercard to fuel its expansion into Central America.

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Fintech Finance

MAY 16, 2024

Cooperative Bank of Oromia and Mastercard have unveiled a groundbreaking collaboration with the launch of the Coopbank Prepaid Mastercard and the introduction of the Community Pass technology in Ethiopia. Transactions will be effortless through a dedicated mobile application, providing efficient card management capabilities.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 24, 2024

JazzCash , the fintech arm of Pakistan’s leading digital operator Jazz, a VEON Group company, has received the ‘Pioneering Telco to Launch Tap on Phone’ award at the Mastercard Payment Leaders Awards. The ceremony was held on the sidelines of the Mastercard EDGE 2024 event in Dubai. ” J.K.

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Clearly Payments

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the forefront of payment industry, particularly in credit cards, are two giants: Visa and Mastercard. As the world’s leading payment networks , Visa and Mastercard play a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of electronic payments on a global scale. Then comes Mastercard, with 24%.

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Fintech News

APRIL 24, 2025

From digital payments to decentralised finance (DeFi), these companies are solving real-world challenges like financial inclusion and cross-border transactions, while setting new global standards for innovation. Each plays a key role in transforming how Indonesians save, spend, invest, and access financial services.

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Faster Payments Council

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Faster Payments Council (FPC), a membership organization devoted to advancing faster payments in the United States, today announced it has launched two new FPC Work Groups: Financial Inclusion and Real-Time Recurring. For more information on the FPC, its current work efforts or to join, visit FasterPaymentsCouncil.org.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The card brand and bank will offer lending and prepaid cards to a traditionally underserved demographic.

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FICO

JULY 15, 2022

Financial Inclusion Using Analytics. It means the inclusion of credit markets that are less developed, where a larger part of the population is underserved. Using new approaches to improve financial inclusion. Financial inclusion also means investing in innovation. Saxon Shirley.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Promoting financial inclusion — a lofty ambition targeting two billion people around the world who currently live without the ability to securely send and receive money — is about more than taking cash away, handing those consumers an electronic payments solution and opening up bank accounts for them.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

Recent days have seen Samsung and Barclays added to an lineup that already includes players like Visa, Mastercard, Wells Fargo, Citibank and Chase — just to name a few. With almost 28 million M-PESA customers in Kenya, we see this as a meaningful step forward in working with partners to drive the democratization of financial services.”.

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The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Orange Middle East and Africa is strategically partnering with global payments giant Mastercard to expand access to mobile financial services across Sub-Saharan Africa. The two entities plan to roll out the service in seven countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 12, 2024

Payments giant Mastercard is joining forces with Nairobi-based Equity Bank , to enable customers based in Kenya to send money safely and securely to 30 countries. Through Mastercard Cross-Border Services, Equity Bank customers can now send funds through any Equity branch location in Kenya.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

Macnee currently serves as vice chairman of Mastercard where he has led multiple global growth initiatives, with a focus on financial inclusion for the billions of people around the world without access to basic financial services. We all look forward to working with him.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The new platform includes Mastercard Send, a push payments service designed to rapidly send money in the U.S. Metabank provides financial solutions to customers and businesses in what it considers niche and underserved markets, with a belief in financial inclusion for everyone. and also across borders.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

To improve the financial lives of millions of Americans, speed matters — especially for FinTechs seeking to bring new products to market digitally and to target consumers underserved by traditional banking models. When you are waiting two days or seven days for your money,” he said, financial stress accrues.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 12, 2024

Mastercard and Equity Bank have announced a strategic collaboration that will enable Equity Bank customers to send money safely and securely to 30 countries. This collaboration marks a significant milestone for cross-border financial transactions in Kenya. In Kenya, the Central Bank of Kenya reported $5.77

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Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Neem , a leading embedded finance platform in Pakistan, has entered a multifaceted partnership with Mastercard , a global technology company in the payments industry. The strategic multi-year collaboration will enable financial wellness for Pakistan’s underserved communities.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

Mastercard and IFC , a member of the World Bank Group, announced Thursday (April 26) that they have updated a $250 million global risk-sharing facility in an effort to expand access to electronic payments in emerging markets. This partnership will help bring modern financial services to underserved people around the world.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

In a quartet joining forces to bring mobile cross-border payments to 22 million Bangladeshis, MasterCard is linking up with Western Union, bKash and BRAC bank. ” – Matthew Driver, group executive at MasterCard’s Global products and solutions unit. million customers.

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 22, 2024

Mastercard has released a whitepaper on the state of remittances, also known as cross-border payments, in Latin America. Remittances play a key role in strengthening financial inclusion in the region, boosting economies, and alleviating poverty –often serving as an essential source of income for people in low- and middle-income communities.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

But even by that standard, the recent COVID-related moves by consumers around the world to digitize their entire daily routines have been incredibly rapid, as Ken Moore , head of Mastercard Labs , told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. How Mastercard And Microsoft Can Boost Each Other’s Efforts .

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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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The Fintech Times

JUNE 11, 2024

It helps bring people out of poverty, for example, by creating more access to trade finance, lowering the cost of cross-border payments, reducing fraud and providing those first steps towards savings, wealth creation and financial management. “With this type of societal change, the industry can champion more financial inclusion.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Welcome provides financial information and products to immigrants, bilingual community members and underserved households. Petersburg, Florida-based PSCU will work with Missouri-based MRV Banks and Mastercard on the credit card initiative. It has more than 2 million members.

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Fintech News

JULY 23, 2024

The company utilizes data analytics and machine learning (ML) algorithms to conduct comprehensive credit assessments of SMEs, considering financial metrics, transactional dynamics, performance monitoring, and industry risks. Beyond traditional banking, the bank is committed to social and environmental impact through the DBS Foundation.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In line with the global push for inclusive finance, the festival will also address the strategies and tools that will enable equitable access and usage of financial services and products to the underserved.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

Still, QR codes in the coming months and years are likely to find support from low-income consumers and the merchants that serve them, according to a recent analysis from the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a group that advocates for financial inclusion.

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