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

Fintech News

Vietnam’s digital finance landscape is undergoing a notable shift as new players emerge, established ones fade, and traditional banks rise to prominence, a new report by Decision Lab shows. However, by Q4 2023, Moca had slipped out of the top rankings, replaced by mobile apps from traditional banks.

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What are Developing Countries Doing to Improve Access to Finance?

The Fintech Times

Nicky Senyard, CEO and founder of Fintel Connect “Developing countries are actually great places for new ideas because they often don’t have traditional banks. 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.

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

Fintech News

UPI is a real-time payment system developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) that enables instant money transfers between two bank accounts through a mobile platform. These guidelines enable non-bank entities to enter the payment aggregation business and expand their scope to include the import of services.

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Micro-Businesses? Major Role In SMB Banking Disruption

PYMNTS

Solopreneur, independent contractor, freelancer, gig worker – regardless of the name, micro-business owners can largely agree that, when it comes to traditional banking, they’re often left out in the cold. They make the engine run,” said Mike Butler, CEO of community FI Radius Bank. “We tend to overthink it.”

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

CB Insights

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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

CB Insights

If Amazon can get you lower-debt payments or give you a bank account, you’ll buy more stuff on Amazon.”. Based on our findings, it’s hard to claim that Amazon is building the next-generation bank. In aggregate, these product development and investment decisions reveal that Amazon isn’t building a traditional bank that serves everyone.

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

Fintech Finance

“With rapidly accelerating digital payments growth across Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, we have seen a transformation in how consumers and merchants want to pay and be paid both online and in-store,” said Andrew Torre, Regional President, Visa CEMEA. “As