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Danish startup FlatPay joins the club of European fintech unicorns to track
Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, has joined the ranks of European fintech unicorns — or startups valued at more than $1 billion — a milestone that has driven some of the region's biggest exits. These include…
Editorial | Hong Kong breaks new fintech ground with tokenised green bond
Nowadays, it seems everything is tokenised. The latest? Hong Kong has issued a record HK$10 billion (US$1.3 billion) tokenised green bond, the world's largest digitalised bond offering of its kind. With the completion of the pricing of the bond…
African fintech players seek new growth paths
African fintech startups are betting on a raft of new services and geographical expansion to build on the momentum from an expected boom in customer demand. In Nigeria, digital banking app PalmPay is evolving from merely providing quick money…
Down 58%, This Fast-Growing Fintech Stock Could Be a Brilliant Buy Right Now
In many ways, Upstart Holdings (UPST +3.65%) has had a banner year. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has significantly improved conversion rates on loan applications for the AI-powered loan originator. Revenue growth has accelerated, and…
Fintech Stocks Are on Sale. This One Looks Like a Screaming Buy.
The Nasdaq Composite isn't even down 5% from its peak, but cracks are starting to show in the bull market that's driven the tech-heavy index to more than double over the last three years. Consumer discretionary spending at places like Chipotle is…
Fintech Eftsure growing amid fears of AI-boosted business scams
As artificial intelligence accelerates global sharemarket gains and promises to fix the economy's productivity crisis, a criminal underbelly is mastering the same technology to weaponise sophisticated business payment fraud. The fast-growing…
Nearly half UK fintech founders consider shifting business overseas
Rachel Reeves' mission to garner favour with the fintech industry has faltered with founders blasting the government's approach to the sector as they weigh a move overseas. The Chancellor has attempted to ramp up the UK's status as a competitive…
JPMorgan cuts deals with fintech firms for access to customer data
After securing its first payment-for-data deal with Plaid in September, JPMorgan has now updated contracts with fintech firms that make up more than 95% of data pulls on its systems. This content has been selected, created and edited by the…
Fintech Stocks Worth Watching - November 14th
3 Stocks Well Below 52-Week Highs Poised for a Q4 Rebound Rocket Companies, UP Fintech, Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz, DeFi Development, LexinFintech, PPDAI Group, and IDT are the seven Fintech stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock…
NBK Launches Fintech Services to Advance Kuwait's Digital Economy and Promote Financial Inclusion
National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) announced the launch of its FinTech Services, an initiative aimed at accelerating Kuwait's digital transformation Trulioo has launched credit decisioning, a new capability that delivers comprehensive financial, credit…
Agentic AI In Banking Is Ending Finance's Years-Long Tech Lag
Agentic AI is re-rewriting the rules of financial infrastructure. For decades, the technology playbook in finance followed a predictable sequence: retailers adopted new tools first, proved they worked at scale, and only then did banks cautiously…
Why It May Be Too Late For A Grab-GoTo Merger
The Grab Goto merger has always been a talking point in Southeast Asia - will it happen? The Southeast Asian super apps Grab and GoTo, long archrivals in some of the world's most competitive digital services markets, are once again considering a…
Banks: Your Branch's 'Big Ass' Sign Won't Get You Noticed On Gen AI
cartoon bank branch at city street illustration. happy financial business planing. money of stock exchange finance vector. safe deposit box or credit When asked, during a recent meeting of bank CEOs, what his bank's branch strategy was, one CEO…
BNY predicts digital assets will expand quickly
Key insights: BNY and Standard Chartered are both predicting digital assets will play a major role in payments and finance in the short term. What's at stake: Banks are trying to compete with fintechs that have dominated the stablecoin market.
AI-Powered Acquisitions: Boring Businesses Meet The Next Big Thing
Lechi Zhang | Angel investor | Fintech expert | Cofounded 2 lending startups | 7+ yrs SMB finance consulting, World Bank | Stonelake Capital As an investor in the lower-middle market, I've always been drawn to what many call “B2B boring…
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