The Fintech Times

MARCH 26, 2024

These innovative technologies not only enable insurers to streamline operations and enhance customer experiences but also play a pivotal role in extending financial services to underserved communities. “These solutions enhance accessibility by providing digital insurance options tailored to the needs of underserved communities.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 25, 2024

The fintech industry is known for its innovative, agile reputation, and yet it still faces a significant diversity problem that threatens to halt its growth and stop that innovation moving. In our particular field of cryptocurrency exchange, competition is rife, but so is the scope for innovative products and services.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 6, 2024

The integration of Visa’s capabilities will help du Pay to expand its innovative financial solutions, striving for greater alignment with consumer lifestyles as well as bring additional versatility into the du Pay platform, offering customers a suite of enhanced features and services.

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Fintech News

JUNE 18, 2024

This investment from global nonprofit Accion aims to help Amartha expand its platform, offering a full range of financial products and services to underserved women-led small businesses in rural Indonesia using data and AI. Indonesian microfinance fintech company Amartha has secured a US$17.5 billion) in working capital to more than 2.5

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Fintech Finance

JULY 26, 2024

Additional funds will help Mamo expand its product offerings and extend its market presence. The newly raised capital will be allocated to expand Mamo’s product offering within the UAE and support regional expansion. The holistic and expansive nature of our product offering has helped us continue to grow sustainably.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

The product is distinct from Blue Origin LLC, which is Bezos’ space launch vehicle maker. Our business goal is to help those who are underserved or underprivileged (when it comes to internet access). communities. Expensive Cities. The company said in its FCC filing that it will help serve communities in the U.S. “by

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Fintech News

MARCH 11, 2024

The company aims to focus on innovation and catering to underserved market segments. These partnerships have enabled the introduction of new credit card products such as the DCS Ultimate Platinum Cards and D-Lite Cards, with more launches anticipated in 2024.

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Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In line with its objective to support British businesses with market-leading solutions, Mollie has introduced a suite of innovative products and services to the UK including: Mollie Connect: An advanced solution for SaaS platforms and marketplaces to accept and monetise payments, onboard users, and manage funds.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 23, 2024

Bloom Credit offers a comprehensive platform that enables fintech companies and innovative banks to deliver robust credit services, improving their ability to serve consumers and partners effectively. AFC members foster competition in consumer finance and pioneer products to better serve underserved consumer segments and geographies.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 31, 2024

SDK.finance customers developing digital wallets or neobank products will also be able to easily provide cost-efficient payment initiation services, including account top-ups, without needing to connect with each bank individually.

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Payment APIs and Integration FinTech Financial Inclusion Payment Initiation 59

The Fintech Times

AUGUST 23, 2024

Future Finance is a collaborative research project aiming to support mid-tier organisations and small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the UK financial services sector to adopt innovative processes and products that improve accessibility of their services.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 25, 2024

Virraj Jatania, founder and CEO of a UK-based challenger bank Pockit, outlines its dedication to providing vital financial services to underserved communities in the UK, as well as plans to expand it offerings and customer base in the future. This was demonstrated in the launch of our Income Advance product.

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Fintech News

MARCH 24, 2024

Akulaku aims to deepen its operational footprint in Southeast Asia, facilitating the launch of new financing products and enhancing services for the underbanked population. Central to this partnership is a shared dedication to innovation, which underscores our mutual commitment to its success.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 7, 2024

KOMUNAL has partnered with 376 rural banks across Indonesia, offering productive loans primarily to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) predominantly based in the country’s tier 2 and 3 cities. This funding boost comes after KOMUNAL’s operational profitability in the second half of 2023.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

He stressed that low-income and underserved communities are facing severe challenges the most, such as rising prices, social unrest, and climate change impacts. The companies you’ll hear from today are finding innovative ways to bring financial solutions to help people build a better future.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 30, 2024

The event highlighted the progress and innovation within Ghana’s fintech sector. Fintech platforms in the country are revolutionizing financial services, reaching both underbanked and affluent individuals seeking sophisticated financial products and services. Recent data from the Bank of Ghana indicates a 33.4% Tolulope A.

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Finovate

APRIL 10, 2024

Empower , a fintech helping to extend credit to underserved consumers, announced plans to acquire underserved credit card provider Petal. New York-based Petal was founded in 2018 to offer underserved consumers access to credit cards. “This merger brings together two of the leading innovators in this arena.

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Finovate

MARCH 26, 2024

Over the past few weeks, Greg Palmer and the Finovate Podcast have hosted some of the most interesting innovators in fintech. Greg Palmer interviews Alan Bekker , co-founder and CEO of customer engagement innovator, eSelf. Have you listened to the latest episodes of the Finovate Podcast ? Don’t miss another conversation!

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Finovate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

From hyper-personalization to compliance automation to product management, the digital transformation in retail bears many similarities to the digital transformation taking place in financial services. We caught up with Lohith Kumar Paripati ( LinkedIn ), Product Lead at Walmart, to talk about the digital transformation in retail.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Mastercard ’s Senior Vice President of Innovation and Startup Engagement Deborah Barta told Karen Webster in a conversation with Luis Macias , CEO and Founder of GrainChain , that COVID-19 has only intensified the issue. We're now allowing for machines and not humans to be able to add this data.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

And according to Doug Brown, senior vice president and general manager of digital banking at NCR , simplicity and innovation have turned what could have been a disastrous year into a transformational pivot for the better.

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Fintech News

MAY 29, 2024

GXS leverages user-permission data from its ecosystem partners, superapp Grab and major regional telco Singtel, to expand credit access to underserved users. This deployment sets the stage for further innovation and growth, with plans to extend the platform’s capabilities to upcoming credit products in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

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Fintech News

MAY 5, 2024

Their flagship product, a cloud-based banking software, offers the speed and reliability of traditional banking systems with the added benefits of flexibility and customisation. This all comes together to provide wider accessibility to the country’s financially underserved.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 11, 2024

The fintech industry is known for its innovative, agile reputation, and yet it still faces a significant diversity problem that threatens to halt its growth and stop that innovation moving. “Most fintech products aim to serve a global and diverse audience. “We are fortunate to live in an age when finance is open.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 3, 2024

The American Fintech Council (AFC), the industry association representing responsible fintech companies and innovative banks, is joining forces with the Center for Accelerating Financial Equity (CAFE), which has selected the first cohort of companies in its new fintech accelerator programme.

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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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Clearly Payments

MARCH 11, 2024

Canada, known for its somewhat progressive stance towards financial innovation, has been aware and monitoring this transformative technology. These regulations aim to mitigate the risks of illicit activities associated with cryptocurrencies while fostering innovation and protecting consumers.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The first-ever Future of Global Fintech: Towards Resilient and Inclusive Growth report reveals that the global response has been a testament to the agility and innovative spirit that defines the fintech ecosystem. This employment distribution signals a stabilisation of the sector, poised for sustained growth and innovation.

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Clearly Payments

APRIL 9, 2024

The Definition of Fintech vs Traditional Finance Fintech refers to financial technology, which encompasses a broad range of tech innovations and advancements applied to financial services. Overall, fintech aims to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services, often focusing on innovation, usabilty, and efficiency.

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Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The strategic multi-year collaboration will enable financial wellness for Pakistan’s underserved communities. Embedded finance enables companies from any sector to integrate financial services directly into their products via application programming interface (API) implementation.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The affluent segment’s demand for digital-only, cost-effective services is prompting firms like UBS and Merrill Wealth Management to introduce innovative platforms and services catering to this demographic. This particular offering is a product of a collaborative effort with EquBot, a San Francisco-based investment advisory firm.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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Fintech News

MAY 6, 2024

At the heart of this transformation lies the concept of Open Finance – a paradigm shift that transcends traditional banking boundaries to usher in an era of innovation, collaboration, and customer-centricity. Asia’s financial sector is undergoing an evolution that promises to reshape the foundations of banking.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 13, 2024

Our mission is to provide accessible, secure, and cost-effective banking solutions tailored to the unique needs of underserved markets and clients, such as families, freelancers, digital nomads, and businesses often overlooked by larger banks. What problem was your company set up to solve? How would you describe the culture of your company?

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Fintech News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The consortium aims to leverage advanced technology and their respective expertise to bring about new value propositions that extend financial services to the underbanked population and cultivate innovations that better serve the needs of each customer segment, focusing on transparency, accessibility and affordability.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 23, 2024

Acknowledging creators as the SMEs of the future, the partnership between Accelerated Payments and inflverse is directly tackling the challenges encountered by the financially underserved creator economy. We are achieving this by providing funding solutions to power inflverse invoice financing platform.”

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Additionally, the bank plans to innovate new products targeting this vital economic segment, with a keen emphasis on enterprises owned or led by women. The investment, a part of the Thai Credit Bank’s Initial Public Offering (IPO), marks IFC’s first foray into the Thai banking sector as a cornerstone investor.

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