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Vietnam’s Digital Finance Landscape: Banks Gain Ground Amidst Shifting Competition

Fintech News

These incumbents had made a strong entry, collectively achieving a 23% penetration rate and securing the fifth position, the data show. Top digital financial platforms in Vietnam by penetration rate (%), Source: The Connected Consumer Q4 2023, Decision Labs, 2024 This came amid the entry of Apple Pay in the Vietnamese market in August 2023.

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What are Developing Countries Doing to Improve Access to Finance?

The Fintech Times

This shift has led to a bunch of great advancements in mobile banking and money apps, making it possible for financial services to reach even the most remote areas. Governments are promoting digital payment systems and mobile banking to reach unbanked populations. The use of nontraditional data for lending.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

There have been some high-profile failures, such as JPMorgan’s short-lived mobile bank app Finn. But incumbent banks are also at the forefront of the most promising innovations in personal finance today, such as virtual credit cards. Budgeting & Saving: Millennials go mobile and embrace automation.

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

Fintech Finance

Nano Merchant Acceptance With an estimated 120 million formal and informal nano- and micro-merchants still yet to accept digital payments in the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region, Visa has been developing new ways to allow digital payments to physical cards and virtual credentials.

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ACH Fraud Is Rising - And New NACHA Measure Leaves Gaps

FICO

Specifically, ACH Originators of WEB debit entries are required to use a “commercially reasonable fraudulent transaction detection system” to screen WEB debits for fraud. Trial and micro deposits of just a few cents. Use financial institution credentials to access the end user’s bank accounts.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

In the same way that Square built a payment-centric ecosystem for brick-and-mortar SMBs and micro-merchants, Stripe has reinvented online payment acceptance. The company has taken an aggressive but strategic approach towards new market entry, expanding globally through its open engineering and easy integration. Source: Square.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014. ToneTag is a contactless payments hardware and software provider that can be integrated at both merchant (mobile, point of sale, card readers) and customer (mobile wallet, mobile banking apps) interaction points.