FinTech News
Zepz, (World Remit) a $5 billion fintech unicorn, is laying off more staff
Zepz, the money transfer group that owns WorldRemit, made a fresh round of layoffs.The British fintech unicorn, which is backed by TCV, Accel, Leapfrog and other major venture capital funds, told CNBC exclusively that it …
Job opening hints at Brazilian fintech replacing Goldman Sachs as Apple Card issuer
A recent report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that Apple and Goldman Sachs are ending the partnership they made in 2019 to introduce the Apple Card. Although the news didn’t come as a surprise, …
2024: The Beginning Of The End Of Bank-Fintech ‘Partnerships’
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 the face of recent industry trends. …
Emerging Tech
Nigeria’s NITDA advocates AI Integration in Payments for Global Recognition
In a bid for greater global recognition and domestic use of the Nigeria Payments System, the director-general (DG) of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, has stressed the importance of collaboration …
Sheeva.AI and Visa Team to Tokenize In-Car Payments
Sheeva.AI and Visa Acceptance Solutions have teamed to launch a tokenization platform for in-vehicle commerce. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Nov. 21) will see Sheeva.AI — an in-vehicle payments solutions provider — employ Visa’s Cybersource Token …
Bizbaz and RCBC collaborate to enhance credit scoring and accessibility with AI
Bizbaz, a Singapore-based fintech solution provider, has announced its partnership with RCBC, a national retail bank in the Philippines. This partnership will involve RCBC piloting Bizbaz’s artificial intelligence-driven credit assessment and scoring tool to broaden …
Opportunities and Events
What’s In Store For 2024? Innovations In B2C And B2B Fintech Solutions
What are we going to see in terms of fintech innovations in 2024? Experts suggest we should gear up to anticipate many kinds of customer-facing and B2B fintech solutions throughout the rest of this year …
FINTECH CONNECT 2023
In a year of constant change and challenges, the FinTech industry has shown remarkable resilience. Amidst uncertainty and instability, is strong, offering unexplored opportunities to redefine the industry. To empowering Financial Institutions with cutting-edge technology, …
Insights
Project Tourbillon demonstrates cash-like anonymity for retail CBDC
Project enables new privacy paradigm of payer anonymity to protect purchasers’ identities. The prototype’s scalability was tested using payment data. Quantum-safe cryptography was successfully implemented for future security, however speed enhancements await further research. Project …
A digital euro: gauging the financial stability implications
Prepared by Claudia Lambert, Cosimo Pancaro and Antonella Pellicani Published as part of the Financial Stability Review, November 2023. Central banks around the world have stepped up their efforts to explore and develop their own …
Korea to pilot digital currency with 100,000 citizens next year
By Lee Yeon-woo One hundred thousand Koreans will be able to utilize deposit tokens based on the central bank digital currency (CBDC) next year, within a pilot program jointly operated by the Bank of Korea …
Learning
EMERGING TECH TRENDS – ETT December 2, 2023 : Insights into technologies shaping the future
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EMERGING TECH TRENDS – ETT November 25, 2023 : Insights into technologies shaping the future
Curated by www.knowledgeinnovations.com – Your authoritative knowledge source mapping FinTech, Innovations, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Big Data, Machine Learning Subscribe to ETT November 25, 2023 Welcome to Emerging Tech Trends (ETT), focusing on technologies shaping the …