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

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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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Mastercard’s Head Of Innovation: How The Microsoft Partnership Will Boost Digital Commerce Globally

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It’s a merging of capabilities with three primary goals: 1) to build new commerce experiences; 2) to expand financial participation in the digital ecosystem globally; and 3) to drive startup innovation to push those goals forward worldwide. There’s often a dearth of information available to do that, Webster said.

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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. Thrive Capital, Khosla, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Redpoint also participated in early fundraising rounds.As Source: Square. Business lending & corporate cards.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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Industry proponents have been making the case for telehealth for years, pointing to its potential to lower costs, ease pressure on overextended healthcare systems, and make care more accessible in rural and underserved areas. These entry points give cyberoffenders more room to find susceptible targets. Source: Recorded Future.

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13 Southeast Asian Fintechs Among CNBC’s Global Top 250 List

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The company provides flexible capital access to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with competitive interest rates and flexible options in loan tenors, payment models, and collateral participation. It also invests in community initiatives, equipping underserved communities with future-ready skills and promoting food resilience.

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