South African fintech startup Float has secured a US$11 million funding facility from Standard Bank to facilitate the rollout of its card-linked installments platform, supporting its accelerated growth plans...
By Ron Shevlin OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK Prediction: By the end of this decade, bank-fintech partnerships will be a thing of the past. This prediction flies in...
By Justice Okamgba Shekel Mobility, a Nigerian mobility-fintech startup, has secured $7m in seed funding to reshape Africa’s automotive landscape. The funding, comprising $3.2m in equity and over $4m...
As Amazon One—Amazon Web Services’s palm recognition service for identification, payment, loyalty membership, and entry at over 400 locations across the U.S.—reaches a critical milestone with more than 3...
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the activities of illegal financial technology companies and mobile application lenders who threaten debtors for failing to repay loans. At the...
Canada’s Scotiabank has debuted a new digital payments platform for business banking clients, Scotia TranXact ™, to give the business banking clients real-time payments, request-to-pay and account information services...
As technologies emerge and the finance ecosystem needs to reimagine, Deloitte, a leading global provider of audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, and related services has...
Nigerian financial technology companies are grappling with the aftermath of a Kenyan court account freeze order and a decision by a Texas court to jail the founders of Ping...
The next leap of technology promises to bring a human touch to the digital experience with virtual interactions in the metaverse. Like what Union Bank of India did on...
Fintech SaaS startup M2P Fintech has acquired Finflux, a Bengaluru-based cloud lending platform. Finflux becomes the third acquisition by M2P after it acquired two fintech startups in September 2021....