Belvo will provide access to employment data at the Mexican Social Welfare bureau. It could be a key driver for lending to the underbanked.
The stage at Consensus 2022 erupted with an intense dispute over the future of a Fed-managed digital currency.
Across the world there are many success stories of small startups becoming large fintech companies in a variety of areas;...
The paper, published by the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, argued that regulation must address defi money laundering and terrorism financing to create broader investor protection.
Banking is at an interesting inflection point. There is better technology available today than ever before that can really help banks run more efficiently as their customers are demanding faster and more user-friendly services. At the same time, looming over the horizon is blockchain technology, DeFi, stablecoins and more that could make some of today’s cutting-edge technology obsolete. My next guests on the Fintech One-on-One podcast are living at the center of this conundrum. Ryan Zacharia and Adam Aspes are […]
One of the major themes throughout IFGS was financial inclusion and how technology can accelerate that. ...
Alibaba payment affiliate Ant Financial has announced the acquisition of helloPay; the company is based in Singapore and will help support Alipay's strategic growth initiatives in Southeast Asia; its primary payments focus is on serving e-commerce platforms; helloPay will be rebranded as Alipay following the acquisition. Source
Golden Bull operates a platform for loans secured by vehicles; the company plans to raise a total of $7 million offering 1.6 million shares; the company previously planned to offer 2 million shares at the same price between $4-$4.50 per share; Golden Bull was founded in 2015 and will list on the Nasdaq with ticker DNJR. Source
Tuesday, March 22, 2 p.m. EDT What is this webinar about? Long gone are the days of the solo fraudster working from a laptop, handpicking victims. Nowadays, fraud is controlled by organized criminals with vast resources who invest heavily in the technology they use for their attacks. Why would hackers manually test out stolen credit cards one by one when they can set up a program to test thousands of them in minutes? Fraud teams need to understand their enemies […]
Scott Morrison, Australia's treasurer, spoke about regtech at the Fintech Australia Summit; the treasurer discussed a regtech collision occurring in fintech where both crowdfunding firms and traditional banks are benefiting from increased technological innovation around regulation; likely that the marketplace lending ecosystem could see expansion in regulatory technology innovation. Source