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Hysan courts fintech as ZA Bank commits to new Causeway Bay headquarters
Digital bank ZA Bank is taking 45,000 square feet (4,181 square metres) across four upper floors at Hysan Development's Lee Garden Eight for its new headquarters, adding to a wave of financial and technology companies reshaping Causeway Bay's…
India's Fintech Leadership: Paving Way For Billion-Dollar Global Companies
Razorpay CEO Harshil Mathur asserts that India's dominant position in real-time payments, including the success of UPI, is set to foster the emergence of several billion-dollar fintech companies poised to capture global markets. India's leadership…
RBI Governor Highlights Fintech's Crucial Role in India's Financial Inclusion & Efficiency
RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra has underscored the pivotal role of fintech in transforming India's financial landscape, hailing it as a 'valuable partner' in fostering financial inclusion, improving customer experience, and enabling efficient credit…
PM Modi pushes fintech for global UPI reach, lower remittance fees
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called upon the Indian fintech sector to aggressively expand the global footprint of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), aiming to integrate it with international payment systems and significantly reduce…
This Is the Fintech Stock I'd Buy Next, and Soon
The 40% pullback in SoFi Technologies (SOFI -1.15%) from last October's peak -- followed by its stagnation since March -- makes enough superficial sense. The company delivered the bad news it was expected to deliver. But as is so often the case…
How Has Fintech Reshaped India's Financial Architecture? RBI Governor Explains
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra has said that fintech has helped reshape the architecture of finance in the country over the past decade, taking banking 'from the branch to the hand of every citizen.' Speaking at…
Global Fintech Fest 'one of the highlights of Indian financial calendar', says NSE CEO
The Global Fintech Fest (GFF) has emerged as one of the highlights of the Indian financial calendar, serving as a key platform where policymakers and market leaders define the next stage of the country's financial technology sector, said Ashish…
Chime shares jump 10% as Stride deal puts fintech on path to bank charter
Sept 9: Chime shares surged 10 per cent before the bell on Wednesday after the fintech firm agreed to buy Stride for $590 million, gaining a bank charter that would allow it to expand its lending business. Over the past few years, Chime has emerged…
Dutch fintech Adyen sees long-term India opportunity, plans local expansion
MUMBAI, Sept 9: Dutch payments processor Adyen plans to expand its India operations and hire more employees as it bets on the country's fast-growing digital payments market and rising cross-border commerce activity, a top executive told Reuters.
Investors fret as UK fintech chief bows out
Lisa Jacobs has overseen a tumultuous time at the helm of London-listed fintech Funding Circle. After she announced plans for her exit, Samuel Norman takes a look at Jacobs' tenure in this week's column. As she announced plans to bow out from…
Many billion-dollar fintech cos can emerge from India to serve global markets: Razorpay CEO
India's leadership in real-time payments could foster several billion-dollar fintech companies capable of serving global markets, a top Razorpay official said on Wednesday. While speaking during a session at Global Fintech Fest, Razorpay CEO…
Dutch fintech Adyen sees long-term India opportunity, plans local expansion
Company's India workforce has risen tenfold since 2023 Payments firm bets on cross-border commerce, AI-driven payments Adyen adapting to data localisation requirements, UPI Dutch payments processor Adyen plans to expand its India…
FinTechs helping bridge India's MSME credit gap: RBI Governor
FinTechs are helping bridge India's MSME credit gap by extending formal, collateral-like credit to millions of small businesses that, for decades were invisible to traditional underwriting models, said RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra. “This is…
JWKS and Session Verification Explained - 5 Recovery Paths for Fintech APIs
Short answer: use JWKS verification to establish that a token was signed by an accepted issuer, then use session verification to decide whether that still-valid token should be allowed to act. For a fintech API rotating refresh tokens after a…
The Future Of Payments Is The Freedom To Choose Between Rails
Dr. Ozan Özerk is a fintech entrepreneur and the founder of leading BaaS & payment infrastructure platform OpenPayd, EMBank, Bitpace, MSB.us Payments discussions still tend to be framed as a contest. Cards versus account-to-account…
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