Tagged: financial inclusion

May 21, 2023 @ 9:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Futu Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: FUTU) announces its expansion into Malaysia with its super investment platform, moomoo, introducing a comprehensive suite of tech-driven offerings to promote financial inclusion. Through inclusive finance, Malaysia investors “will enjoy lifelong access to a holistic suite of self-help educational resources, free-for-all… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With more than 90% of countries exploring, developing and implementing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as a way to increase financial inclusion and lower the cost and risk of domestic and cross-border payment processes, Ripple is announcing the Ripple CBDC Platform, which is described as… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 7:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SMEs are at the heart of our economy and financial institutions need to do more to help them. It has been found that they play a central role in financial inclusion, representing around 90% of businesses globally and more than 50% of employment worldwide, according… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 11:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU) reveals that it has supported the financial inclusion of 5.7 million Brazilians in the credit card market in one year, according to a study released by Data Nubank – the company’s research and analysis platform on finances. The survey analyzed “the spending… Read More

March 13, 2023 @ 11:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Experian recently announced plans to pilot a new service that could help millions of financially excluded people “get better access to mainstream financial services.” Experian’s initiative aims “to help people with little or no credit history – the so-called ‘credit invisibles’ – build out their… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Open finance platform Brankas has announced a new feature enabling instant bank account opening as an “embedded finance” experience on third-party applications. The API is the “first” of its kind in the region, “launched first in Indonesia and the Philippines.” As a bundle with Brankas’… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 3:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) is supporting financially inclusive lending with the availability of expanded U.S. mortgage credit reports. The company is reportedly “the first National Credit Reporting Agency (NCRA) to make certain telecommunications (telco), pay TV and utilities attributes available to the mortgage industry to provide a… Read More

February 15, 2023 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Comun, a Latino-founded neobank that provides modern banking solutions for Latino families, announced it closed a $4.5M seed round led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from South Park Commons and FJ Labs. The company plans “to use the funds to build a financial hub with… Read More

February 6, 2023 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Social purpose Fintech firm Salad Money will aim to serve the demand for affordable credit from NHS and public sector employees after receiving a senior debt facility of as much as £40 million via a US-headquartered credit fund. The facility means more essential workers among… Read More

January 27, 2023 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alviere, the embedded finance platform provider, is pleased to announce that Grupo Coppel, Mexico’s largest non-food retailer, has chosen Alviere “to enable the launch of Coppel Access, a mobile wallet that will provide millions of unbanked and underbanked consumers in the U.S. with easy access… Read More

January 26, 2023 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Girts Straujums, CEO of WeavePay, a UK-based payment platform that helps businesses go borderless. Girts Straujums talked about the issues facing Fintech platforms and how certain customer needs are still not being met. Straujums also shared the main reasons why… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The financial services sector has evolved considerably during the past decade, with many new Fintech startups and banking challengers raising substantial funding to fundamentally improve how consumers perform transactions. Individuals and business organizations across the globe have been moving their activities online, a digital transformation… Read More

January 2, 2023 @ 5:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Millions of consumers are offering financial support to friends and family members residing abroad. However, when it comes to getting those (remittances) to the intended recepients, it is a lot more costly than it should be, according to an update from Fintech firm Wise (LSE:WISE)…. Read More

December 15, 2022 @ 11:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NOW Money, the GCC’s first mobile banking solution focused on financial inclusion, and ThetaRay, a provider of AI-powered transaction monitoring technology, announced a collaboration to implement ThetaRay’s cloud-based AML solution “to monitor cross-border payments and support in the prevention of financial crimes and money laundering… Read More

November 22, 2022 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Propel Holdings Inc. (TSX: PRL), a Fintech company dedicated to credit inclusion, announced that it has entered the Canadian market with its new brand, Fora CreditTM (Fora) – “a convenient online credit solution for underserved Canadian consumers.” Nearly 25 per cent of Canadians “are either… Read More

November 21, 2022 @ 9:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

StellarFi, a financial technology company on a mission to disrupt the U.S. poverty cycle by opening access to credit, announced it has “exceeded $1 million in annual recurring revenue.” The company “emerged from stealth on June 28 and closed its oversubscribed $7 million initial funding… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 5:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Daylight, which claims to be the “first” and “only” digital bank designed to build the financial products and services to help queer people live their best lives, announced $15 million in new financing led by Anthemis Group, “with participation from CMFG Ventures, Kapor Capital, Citi… Read More

November 19, 2022 @ 6:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysend, the UK-based fintech, introduced Paysend Libre, which will “allow unbanked users in Northern Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador) to receive remittances from the U.S. instantly to a Paysend virtual Mastercard digital card.” The virtual card is ready “to use in minutes for cash… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 8:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As part of its mission to promote financial equity and inclusion for all working Americans, DailyPay has teamed up with the veteran-run Coordinated Assistance Network (CAN) to “make free financial coaching and counseling available to millions of DailyPay users.” Partnering with America’s employers, DailyPay enables… Read More

November 11, 2022 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blnk, a fintech startup that enables instant consumer credit in Egypt, has “raised $23.7 million in equity and debt funding, and $8.3 million in securitized bond issuance to accelerate financial inclusion within underserved communities across the country.” The funds will support “further development of Blnk’s… Read More