Kueski plans to launch new products this year as it seeks to serve the underbanked. BNPL application rising on the back of e-commerce.
The gig economy has been a driving force for the adoption of real-time payments. This is how it is transforming the gig economy.
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Environmental concerns drive many to reject the idea of CBDCs but research suggests they could actually be an improvement.
The regulator postponed the implementation of a prudential capital regulation by six months, giving flexibility to fintechs in the sector.
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DiMo turns one year in Mexico. With this new digital payments initiative, the central bank wants to move on from CoDi´s unsuccessful experience.
The ECB announced the results of their two year digital euro investigation. Many questions still stand. They have decided to move forward.
In the west we take it for granted that the vast majority of people have internet access. But that is not true in the developing world. For digital payments to take off there we need to develop robust offline payments infrastructure.
Brightwell, an international payments firm survived the shutdown of its biggest client and a brute force attack that drained $3 million.
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The Bank of Missouri has partnered with Corserv to enable the issuing of Visa credit cards for their customers.
We started the month with the huge news that Square was acquiring Afterpay and we ended with Amazon’s deal with Affirm.
It seems like every day there is more news coming out of this sector, it is white-hot right now.