Airwallex has obtained a payment institution license from the Central Bank of Brazil and completed the acquisition process of MexPago, a Mexico-based payment service provider and holder of an Electronic Payment Fund Institution (IFPE) license. With these...

Funding for Financial Technology (FinTech) in ASEAN has surged more than 10 times since 2015, growing at an exponential rate compared to global FinTech funding. This fuelled growth in sectors such as payments and alternative lending, and is poised to...

Indian policymakers have facilitated a payments ecosystem in the country like never before – throwing up challenges of its own.  In the past few years, digital payments have transformed the way Indians conduct financial transactions, driven by the ...

Michael Seaman, Co-founder and CEO of Swipesum, is at the forefront of transforming payment processing and merchant services. Founded in 2016 with his brother, Stephen, Swipesum leverages AI and proprietary software to create transparent, optimised payment...

According to PwC’s analysis unit, Strategy&, the GCC region is set to reap US$23.6 billion in economic impact from generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) by 2030. In what analysts called a “conservative top-down estimate”, Saudi Arabia will see US$12...

In a significant partnership, Yango in Côte d’Ivoire, part of Yango Group, a global technology company that creates daily services, has teamed up with COFINA, a mesofinance institution in the country and Yabx, an embedded finance platform that builds credit pr...

Wipfli, a top 25 advisory and accounting firm, has published the results of two industry surveys from the banking and credit union sectors that provide insights into current market challenges. Based on the data, the surveyed financial institution leaders...

According to FICO report, more and more Mexican consumers are of the opinion that RTPs are comparably secure with credit cards, but they still expect more automated fraud detection from their bank. Global analytics software company FICO has...

In this exclusive interview, Jeroen Hölscher, Global Head of Payment Services at Capgemini, delves into the transformative trends shaping financial services. From open finance personalisation to instant payments, decentralised identity and remittance ...

Investcorp, a global alternative investment firm, announced that it has co-sponsored the INJAZ Bahrain Finance Park Programme, supporting financial literacy and career development for Bahrain’s next generation. The INJAZ Bahrain Finance Park Programme p...

AI isn’t just making fraud smarter – it’s making it nearly impossible to catch. With global losses hitting US$486bn annually, Bureau has announced US$30mn in Series B to level the playing field. A leading risk intelligence platform, which has seen its rev...

Tassat Group, the leading provider of private permissioned blockchain-based real-time settlement solutions, has announced its strategic partnership with Veuu, an innovative AI-powered healthcare FinTech company, to improve the inefficiencies and opaqueness...