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India’s Digital Payment Revolution: A Decade of Unprecedented Growth

Fintech News

Merchant acquiring solutions, including offline and online options like QR code payments, payment aggregators and payment gateways, also saw substantial growth of more than 25%, spurred by regulatory initiatives, rising QR penetration, and the entry of new players.

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Visa Reinvents the Card, Unveils New Products for the Digital Age at Visa Payments Forum CEMEA 2024

Fintech Finance

In addition, Visa is announcing Visa Pay, a new payments-as-a-service platform that provides world-class mobile-first experiences for digital payments and interoperable send-and-receive that has been developed for the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Click to Pay is available in CEMEA today. Fraud data from 3Q23.

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SFF 2024 Awards Highlights Fintech Innovation with Updated Categories, New AI Focus

Fintech News

Over 200 submissions were received across six categories, with 175 entries in the corporate categories and 29 in the individual Fintech Mentor Award category. Each day, approximately 500 micro and small business owners use their app to apply/request for a business loan. Four finalists were shortlisted in each category.

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How Blockchain Tech Could Disrupt Real Estate

CB Insights

Additionally, real estate investing often involves expensive intermediaries such as fund managers, further raising the barrier to entry. This approach makes it easier to establish a market for property “micro-shares,” creating the potential for a property to effectively have numerous co-owners with a stake in potential returns.

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The metaverse could be tech’s next trillion-dollar opportunity: These are the companies making it a reality

CB Insights

Bridging micro-vibrations, pneumatic systems for force resistance, and motion tracking, this technology can give the impression that digital objects have texture, stiffness, and weight. Headsets (VR): These companies are developing VR goggles — currently considered the main entry point to metaverse applications.

Metaverse 101
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Sleepless In 2017: The Eight Big Shifts That Should Keep FIs, Retailers and Payments Execs Up At Night

PYMNTS

For consumers to decide that messaging apps are their new commerce point of entry will require that the apps within them get much smarter and the user interface much slicker. A couple of years ago, making the point that commerce could go anywhere was likely a discussion about giving a micro-merchant a dongle that could connect to their phone.

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Sleepless In 2017: The Eight Big Shifts That Should Keep FIs, Retailers and Payments Execs Up At Night

PYMNTS

For consumers to decide that messaging apps are their new commerce point of entry will require that the apps within them get much smarter and the user interface much slicker. A couple of years ago, making the point that commerce could go anywhere was likely a discussion about giving a micro-merchant a dongle that could connect to their phone.