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| Apr 29, 2026 | Cambridge report finds AI integration gap and risks in financial services | Key findings of ‘2026 Global AI in Financial Services Report – Adoption, Impact and Risks’:
Agentic AI adoption levels: fintechs lead incumbents, and industry leads regulators
AI impact to date is more on efficiency gain rather than busines... |
| Apr 22, 2025 | A Brief History of bKash: Trajectory, Funding, and Lessons | bKash is a fascinating company for many reasons beyond the obvious. Yes, it is Bangladesh's largest MFS provider, has transformed the country's financial services landscape, and become its first tech unicorn. As we have noted in these pages... |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Navigating the Digital Frontier: Southeast Asia's Tech and Payment Revolution | Southeast Asia is a digital dynamo. The region is buzzing with innovation, especially in tech and payments. Startups are sprouting like bamboo shoots after rain. They’re hungry for visibility and resources. Enter Humble Bundle, a new platfo... |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Cambodia's Tech Renaissance: A New Dawn for Startups | Cambodia is a hidden gem in Southeast Asia's tech landscape. Often overshadowed by its neighbors, it is now emerging from the shadows. The recent acquisition of Nham24 by Grab marks a pivotal moment. This deal is not just a transaction; it’... |
| Mar 12, 2025 | Buy, sell, and pay: 5 insights into SEA’s payments landscape | EcommerceFintechPaid Content Partnerships
Stefanie Yeo · 22h ago · 6 min readBuy, sell, and pay: 5 insights into SEA’s payments landscape
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“See? So simple!” said Uncle Sim, a character from a series of 2010s advertisement... |
| Mar 12, 2025 | Women will get most of the $124 trillion ‘great wealth transfer.’ Here’s why | An estimated $124 trillion will change hands by 2048 as part of the greatest generational wealth transfer in history.
Women stand to benefit disproportionately, studies show.
Here are a few key considerations to help prepare.
As part of the... |
| Sep 21, 2023 | M-Pesa: чем кончилась история с сотовым оператором, который пошёл в банкинг | «Кремниевая саванна» — такое прозвище сравнительно недавно закрепилось за Кенией. В этой африканской стране ещё совсем недавно 75% населения трудилось на земле, а подавляющее большинство жителей освещало глиняные дома керосином. И всего за ... |
| Apr 3, 2023 | Robust Consumer Protection Can Support a Rights-Respecting Digital Future | The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace released a report on March 13 on cyber vulnerabilities across Africa and the potential harm these can cause for underserved communities. It shared the experience of a woman in Nigeria whose rel... |
| Aug 30, 2022 | Nonprofit Partnerships Can Transform Program Design And Expand Reach | A key to driving innovation, particularly within the international development space, is forming partnerships with fellow organizations. Through partnerships, organizations can build connections, refine program design, expand impact, and de... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Kenya and Ghana are front-lining the global mobile money market | The ‘Africa Rising’ narrative has been quite controversial over the years. However, although the continent still has a mountain to climb, some sectors have made commendable growth, mobile money being one of them.
Africa now accounts for 70 ... |
| Jun 13, 2022 | CGAP et le Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances de Côte d'Ivoire ont organisé une table ronde | L'UNSGSA Reine Máxima participe à la table ronde sur la protection des consommateurs de services financiers numériques
ABIDJAN, CôTE D'IVOIRE , June 13, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Le Groupe Consultatif d'Assistance aux Pauvres (CGAP) et le ... |
| Mar 21, 2022 | Lendsqr is building the infrastructure to power lending in Africa | Share this article:
The difficulties in Africa’s financial sector create room for many opportunities. Like a giant onion bulb, when one financial service issue is resolved, other layers reveal more issues to be solved.
When businesses found... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | Give a woman a mobile and the whole world benefits | On International Women’s Day, we are inspired to challenge the barriers to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5, gender equality, a fundamental human right, and a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. |
| Jan 7, 2022 | Regulating crypto could create American super apps | David Donovan Contributor
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David Donovan leads the Global Financial Services Practice for the Americas for digital consultancy Publicis Sapient and is a former Fidelity Investments executive.
Much of Chinese society has come... |
| Nov 1, 2021 | Mobile money is catching on among Beninese, driven by MTN’s MoMo | It’s becoming increasingly popular to store money in an electronic wallet in Benin Republic. Years of growth in mobile money adoption among Beninese saw the penetration of active wallets reach 37% of the population in 2019, according to a r... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | Meet Julaya, a startup solving payment friction for the World Bank in Ivory Coast | Grace Kouassi, an Ivorian construction retailer, goes through a lot of hassle when she has to pay employees their monthly salaries.
Her challenges are not due to a lack of cash but stem from how best to disburse the funds. She has three opt... |
| Apr 22, 2021 | The Future of Finance: How to Cope With Open Banking In Emerging Asia | For more than a decade, Asia has been the largest regional banking market and as the continent’s massive middle class continues to grow, McKinsey expects personal financial assets in the region to reach US$69 trillion by 2025, or 75% of the... |
| Apr 19, 2021 | Morocco Is Now Home to Many Fintech Services, Crowdfunding, Lending, Advanced Data Analytics Platforms: Report | Morocco is reportedly one of the most prominent Fintech hubs in the MENA region, as it’s currently home to approximately 13% of around 400 regional Fintech businesses, according to research carried out by financial inclusion supporter Consu... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Running In Place: America's Financial Inclusion Problem | Benvenuto is an NBFI executive and global lending strategist specializing in financial inclusion, growth strategies and value innovation. |
| Oct 19, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence And Africa: The Case For Investing In African Telecoms | Rapid advances in technology, connectivity and telecommunications are conspiring to make Africa’s large, rapidly growing population a valuable asset for the automation revolution. It is imperative that Africa quickly develop agency in data ... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | TikTok, WeChat and the growing digital divide between the US and China | Over the past decade, the dynamic between Chinese and United States tech companies has undergone dramatic shifts. Once seen as a promising market for American companies, that narrative flipped as China’s tech innovation and investment power... |
| Sep 21, 2020 | Checkout-free Shopping: It’s Bigger Than You Think | 24 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Cashierless checkout won’t merely restructure retail business models: It will disrupt the entire payments industry.
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A few years ago, Amazon made headlines with its ... |
| Sep 21, 2020 | Checkout-free Shopping: It’s Bigger Than You Think | 38 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Cashierless checkout won’t merely restructure retail business models: It will disrupt the entire payments industry.
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A few years ago, Amazon made headlines with its ... |
| Sep 17, 2020 | Leading Fintech Tala Looks To Develop New Products Designed For A Volatile World | Shivani Siroya, the founder of Tala, is committed to using digital tools to help bring financial ... [+] inclusion to Kenya, Mexico, and the Philippines, but like many powerful products there are upsides and downsides to the easy availabili... |
| Jul 3, 2020 | Meet BukuWarung, the bookkeeping app built for Indonesia’s 60 million “micromerchants” | Original Post by BukuWarung |
| Jul 2, 2020 | Meet BukuWarung, the bookkeeping app built for Indonesia’s 60 million “micromerchants” | In Indonesia, there are about 60 million “micromerchants,” typically small store owners who sell food and other staple items, and have close relationships with their customers. Many often extend informal lines of credit to shoppers, but muc... |
| Apr 15, 2020 | Nigerian fintech behemoth, SystemSpecs is restructuring | The Nigerian fintech behemoth is restructuring and entering the consumer retail business.
After over two decades of being an enterprise focused business, SystemSpecs is making major changes.
A few weeks ago, the company launched Paylink, an... |
| Apr 2, 2020 | West Africa is Africa’s mobile money rising star, according to GSMA’s 2019 report | Africa added 50 million new mobile money accounts in 2019 as the number of registered accounts globally surpassed the 1 billion mark for the first time.
East Africa, home to Safaricom’s MPesa, remains number 1 in the world in terms of trans... |
| Jan 7, 2019 | This Startup Is Trying To Fix India’s Broken Election Polling | Last month, Arnab Goswami hosted a panel on Republic TV three days before the Assembly Elections in Rajasthan, called #Pollofpolls. Goswami invited two prominent Indian pollsters (those who conduct or analyse opinion polls), Pradip Bhandari... |
| Oct 26, 2018 | 600m Africans Lack Electricity, Innovative Financing Is Bridging The Gap | Off-grid solar startups in Africa have raised an incredible amount of money in the past few years. Within the last ten years, they have raised no less than $874 million across 24 startups alone. About a quarter of these have been raised in ... |
| Oct 24, 2018 | Platform economy paves the way for the expansion of credit to all populations | Presented by Humaniq
One third of the global population has no access to credit and therefore no means to spend money on the future. This is a major barrier to the development of low- and middle-income nations. While technology has progress... |
| Oct 3, 2018 | Financial inclusion is a classic case of how not to scale trust in Nigeria | Share this article:
If you can find someone with a problem that needs solving and you can solve it manually, go ahead and do that for as long as you can, and then gradually automate the bottlenecks. It would be a little frightening to be so... |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Opinion: What regulators in Indonesia should do as fintech flourishes | CommunityFeatured CommunityFintechOpinion
Aidil Zulkifli · 9 Apr 2018 · 4 min readOpinion: What regulators in Indonesia should do as fintech flourishes
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Aidil is a TIA Star Contributor and publishes high-value c... |
| Mar 13, 2018 | Competition Counts: Former FCA Innovation Lead Shares Experience at UK Regulator, Explains New Role at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance | The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) is the leading research authority on global innovations in finance. Over the past several years, CCAF has produced benchmark reports tracking the growth and evolution of all forms of Finte... |
| Apr 1, 2017 | Africa is the next frontier for VCs | According to Clarium Capital founder Peter Thiel, entrepreneurs should look for secrets where no one is looking and turn them into business opportunities. Thiel says it best in his book: “The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take... |
| Apr 1, 2017 | Africa is the next frontier for VCs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
According to Clarium Capital founder Peter Thiel,... |
| Aug 26, 2016 | Digital financial services for cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire | Advans, a company we’re invested in, has reached thousands of cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire with a programme designed to give them better access to financial services. |
| Aug 26, 2016 | Digital financial services for cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire | Advans, a company we’re invested in, has reached thousands of cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire with a programme designed to give them better access to financial services. |
| Mar 14, 2016 | Unlocking blockchain for the underbanked | Jackie Hyland Contributor
Jackie Hyland is an investment associate at Accion Venture Lab.
As 2015 came to a close and the new year began, many thought leaders in the financial technology space made their predictions on the trends and innova... |
| 2016 | Why Silicon Valley Should Bring Unsexy Back | Rana Gujral Contributor
Rana Gujral is the CEO of TiZE
Neckties embedded with QR codes. Pants that make drum noises. “Uber for medical marijuana.” These are just a few of the goofy startup ideas that have cropped up in Silicon Valley in rec... |
| Aug 19, 2015 | Alibaba-Backed Paytm Can Now Offer Banking Services In India | Eleven companies, including Alibaba-backed Paytm and several telecoms, can now offer a wide array of financial services after being granted provisional approval by the Reserve Bank of India, the country’s central banking authority.
Paytm, t... |
| Apr 27, 2015 | Industry Convergence In Financial Services Is Accelerating | Christoffer O. Hernæs Contributor
Christoffer O. Hernæs is chief digital officer of Sbanken, Norway's first digital-only bank and leading challenger bank.
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Do you need a blockchain?
Is technology contributing t... |
| Mar 8, 2015 | Why Bitcoin Regulation Lags Where it's Needed Most | International remittance is ostensibly one of the most compelling use cases for bitcoin and digital currencies.
Recorded remittances to Africa grew four-fold between 1990 and 2010 and have increased steadily since. The World Bank projects $... |
| Mar 4, 2015 | The rise of ‘unknown OS’ in global smartphone markets | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In the near future, we expect brands to continue to globalize by expanding their target markets to previously untapped areas, such as A... |
| Mar 4, 2015 | The rise of ‘unknown OS’ in global smartphone markets | In the near future, we expect brands to continue to globalize by expanding their target markets to previously untapped areas, such as Africa and India. A major key to this expansion will be the ability to capture consumer attention via mobi... |
| Dec 20, 2014 | What Bitcoin Can Learn From Mobile Money's Journey | Sarah Boone Martin is founder of Rock the Coin, an organisation that engages in grassroots community outreach about bitcoin. She is also CEO of Boone Martin, a global communications firm that focuses on social impact investing.
Many of the ... |
| Mar 28, 2012 | Мобильное преимущество | К 2015 году цифровые банковские услуги должны стать основным каналом взаимодействия банка с клиентом, но банки пока не придают должного значения важному новому источнику роста доходов, говорится в исследовании PwC «Новые цифровые технологии... |
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