JP Morgan, UK Aid invest $15 million in Catalyst Fund
Catalyst Fund will back 30 fintech startups in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, India and Mexico over next three years...
Tag : FinTech
Should Google and Facebook be venturing into banking?
A never-ending quest for more data and control over customers is forcing Google and Facebook to make a banking play – what could go wrong?...
Credit scoring: Keeping customer privacy at the forefront
A unique opportunity comes in the form of smartphone metadata as a means of developing credit scores for individuals and small business owners...
Lifetime financial planning: What is the better trade off?
Singapore fintech startup BetterTradeOff’s solution solve the loss of human touch and contextualisation in financial planning for individuals...
Enigma-led consortium applies for Singapore’s digital bank licence
Enigma Group is the fifth to bid for a digital bank licence in Singapore...
Open banking unleashes business lending race
The UK’s open banking directive is starting to propel SME growth and is having a cascading effect on European banking...
UK: Open banking unleashes business lending race
The UK’s open banking directive is starting to propel SME growth and is having a cascading effect on European banking...
Al Wateen: A unique digital factory in the Kuwait Islamic banking sector
Kuwait’s Warba Bank is pioneering digital banking innovation in the Gulf countries with an in-house centre to develop exclusive digital products and services...
Cashless society: epayments catch fire in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia achieved 36% epayments out of all payments in 2019 against a target of 28% for 2020. Is this growth sustainable?...
UOB taps into $10 bn Asean millennials market with neobank TMRW
The bank says that 70% of ASEAN consumers demonstrate high ecommerce engagement...