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How Digital Ecosystems And Fintech Are Redefining Sports Partnerships
Agung Dwi Sandi is the Founder and CEO of rankpillar Group, an expert marketing and leading digital marketing agency in Southeast Asia. The Oklahoma City Thunder's recent ascent in the NBA, driven by a potent mix of young talent, consistent…
Should You Forget Big Banks and Bet on Fintech Instead?
The internet, smartphones, and digital payments have made a once-stodgy industry -- banking -- much more competitive in the 21st century. New financial technology (fintech) players like Nu Holdings (NU +0.62%) have built consumer banking businesses…
Zimbabwe Adds Seven Fintech Projects to Regulatory Sandbox
Latest News PublishedJul 28, 2026 Sandbox participation permits supervised testing but does not guarantee full commercial registration. Zimbabwe's securities regulator has admitted seven financial technology projects to its regulatory sandbox, with…
Zimbabwe Adds Seven Fintech Projects to Regulatory Sandbox
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Indian fintech enters its profit era: Jefferies
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Rent fintech Flex is latest firm to ask for a bank charter
Key insight: Flex Rent is applying for an ILC charter and FDIC insurance to directly issue its core credit products to consumers. What's at stake: Fintechs applying for various bank charters could reduce the number of sponsor partnerships with…
Visa layoffs: Thousands of jobs slashed at the payments giant as CEO memo points toward AI acceleration
Visa Inc. is preparing to lay off about 2,600 workers, or about 7% of its workforce, the payments processing giant confirmed with Fast Company. The cuts come as the company faces an ever-changing payments landscape, increasingly disrupted by…
Banks Press Fed on Oversight as FinTechs Seek ACH Access
Monday (July 27) is the comment deadline for the Fed's Proposed Revisions to the Federal Reserve Policy on Payment System Risk and the Guidelines for Account and Services Requests, or OP-1878. Comment letters are drawing different requests and…
Nigerian Fintech Nearpays Wins UN AI for Good Innovation Factory Grand Finale, First African Startup to Take Global Title
Nigerian fintech Nearpays has become the first African startup to win the AI for Good Innovation Factory grand finale — the ITU-run global competition that forms one of the anchor events of the United Nations' AI for Good Global Summit…
The future of Wall Street is here as startups and brokers build AI agents to trade 24/7
Brokerages, startups and even retail investors are building AI agents that can help oversee portfolios and automate investing tasks once handled by humans. 'Effectively everybody has their own family office that is working 24/7 for them while…
You Can Finally Trust All Your Money to X, the Everything App
Don't be surprised if, when you're out at a restaurant in the near future, the person at the next table over pays with a metal card with a familiar X on it, and then hops into their Cybertruck and drives away. That person has simply handed some…
Space tech funding in India on the rise, Bengaluru tops the chart: Report
As India's space tech funding reached a record $200 million in 2025, Bengaluru has emerged the ecosystem leader attracting more than half of the ecosystem funding, shows a new report by market research firm Tracxn. According to the report, the…
Do You Want A Job? How Your Answer Will Determine AI's Future
Elias Stahl is the Founder & CEO of HILOS, an AI lab and software platform dissolving the barriers between design and production. “Do you want a job?” Russel bent his head to the side and peered over his glasses in a gesture…
Prediction: This Dividend ETF Will Thrive After 20 Years No Matter What the Market Does
Do you need an income engine that you know will last at least 20 years? A basket of quality dividend stocks -- in the form of an exchange-traded fund, or ETF -- is your best bet, since it will automatically adjust its portfolio to hold the most…
Seven Fintech Firms Join Zimbabwe's Sandbox as Digital Asset Tokenization Gains Traction
Zimbabwean securities regulator approved 7 fintech firms to join its regulatory sandbox framework. Ndarama Standard and four others will advance tokenization across Zimbabwe's markets. SEC will monitor the 7 entities during testing and issue new…
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