FinTech Nows
Understanding How Digital Remittances is Transforming the Global Money Movement
Annually, workers send hundreds of billions of dollars to their home countries. Global remittances totaled $706 billion in 2019, establishing a new high. Over the last several years, digital remittances received a boost from the …
Ghana’s Active Mobile Money hits 19 million
Ghana currently has an active mobile money accounts of 19 millon driving the country’s digital financial sector an increase from 14 million prior to the emergence of COVID pandemic. Mobile money interoperability grew strongly, recording …
Klarna introduces changes to strengthen credit checks in the UK as regulators crack down on ‘buy now, pay later’
“We firmly believe that most of the time, people should pay with the money they have, but there are certain times where credit makes sense,” says Klarna CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski in a statement on Monday …
Emerging Tech
Cosmos Builds New Blockchain, Sagan
Cosmos, a blockchain platform has disclosed it is building a new blockchain, called Sagan – shown in a teaser in the Cosmos Signal presentation. In Cosmos Signal video presentation — a teaser of the launch …
Sri Lanka aims to go Digital with Blockchain Tech & Cryptocurrency mining
Sri Lanka’s Cabinet approved the formation of a committee that will study the rules and regulations governing digital banking, blockchain and crypto mining in other nations, as well as methods to prevent money laundering, terrorism …
8 Uses of AI in FinTech: Using Machine Learning
AI in FinTech has seen some important developments in the past few years. As a result, AI technology is quickly changing the way the industry operates. FinTech agents and some traditional financial industry players have …
Opportunities and Events
5th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies
The 5th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies, a joint initiative of the Basel Institute on Governance, INTERPOL and Europol, will take place on 7–8 December 2021. Hosted virtually this year by the Basel …
Singapore FinTech Festival 2021 – 8 to 12 November
Singapore FinTech Festival 2021 to take place from 8 to 12 November, with key focus on Web 3.0 The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today announced that the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) will take place …
Insights
UK Regulator Launches Campaign to Warn Cryptocurrency Investors
While all investments are subject to some degree of risk, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have extremely volatile pricing, yo-yoing by as much as 30 per cent in a single day. Added to the far higher …
Ghana’s E-cedi to be available offline
Ghana, in an effort to match the current economic development, is working to make its digital currency, E-cedi, available offline. The Bank of Ghana (BoG), this year announced the piloting of the E-Cedi in partnership …
Digital Currency:The African Drive
Nigeria will soon launch its eNaira, Ghana is on the path way to have eCedis while other African countries, like South Africa and Mauritius are also considering having their digital currency. This tells that CBDC, …
Learning
Emerging Tech Trends – ETT
Curated by www.knowledgeinnovations.com – Your authoritative knowledge source mapping FinTech, Innovations, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Big Data, Machine Learning Subscribe to ETT 23rd October, 2021 Welcome to Emerging Tech Trends (ETT), focusing on …
Emerging Tech Trends – ETT
Curated by www.knowledgeinnovations.com – Your authoritative knowledge source mapping FinTech, Innovations, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Big Data, Machine Learning Subscribe to ETT 16th October, 2021 Welcome to Emerging Tech Trends (ETT), focusing on technologies shaping the future. In …