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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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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

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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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10 Best Bank Statement Extraction Software in 2024

Nanonets

Need to reconcile bank statements but tired of doing it manually? Looking for a bank statement extraction software? We have researched and listed the 10 best bank statement extraction software in the market for 2024. It can handle bank statements with complicated layouts (think, multi-line items, nested tables, etc.)

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11 Most Promising Singapore Fintech Startups in NextGen Tech 30

Fintech News

The 2024 winners were selected by a panel of key industry players representing organizations such as KKR, Granite Asia (formerly GGV Capital), Singapore’s InfoComm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Singapore Business Federation, Singapore-based global investor EDBI, SGX Group, DBS Bank, Northstar Group, and 65 Equity Partners.

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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.