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SMEs with female ownership represent 30% to 37% of all SMEs in emerging markets. As these businesses have unmet financial needs, Debbie Watkins, CEO of Lucy, explains why helping women entrepreneurs succeed may have a greater impact all round.
financial services, SMEs, banks, cash flow, unbanked, startup, expansion, customer experience, API, financial institutions
Michelle Beyo, CEO and Founder at FINAVATOR, takes us through the world of Open Banking in Canada; timelines, the bank-fintech relationship, and how Canada addresses the underbanked/unbanked communities, find out all about this in the exclusive interview with FINAVATOR.
Open Banking, unbanked, financial inclusion, regulation, banks, fintech, SMEs
Financial exclusion is not just a problem for the population in developing countries; it is also a major issue for advanced economies
financial inclusion, financial services, unbanked
Union54 has launched in Zambia, offering people an opportunity to own virtual debit cards they can use to pay bills, purchase goods online, and access local and global supply chains.
credit card, debit card, virtual card, unbanked, startup
Ghana-based banking association GhIPSS has rolled out a bank-wide mobile money service to individuals and businesses.
mobile payments, banks, financial inclusion, unbanked, QR code, product launch
DreamStart Labs, a US-based provider of digital banking technology for emerging markets, and KEIPhone, a provider of free smartphones for unconnected women, have partnered to bring free fintech-enabled smartphones to unbanked women in Africa.
fintech, unbanked, partnership, digital banking, financial services
Singapore-based digital identity company FlexID has gotten funding form Algorand to offer self-sovereign ID’s to Africa’s unbanked.
digital identity, blockchain, financial inclusion, unbanked, funding
US-based Possible Finance, a fintech that offers financial services for underserved consumers, has announced an additional USD 20 million in equity funding.
funding, product launch, credit scoring, fintech, credit card, unbanked
Luis Cadavid, the founder of 1931.io, portrays the crypto space in LATAM, focusing on the region’s energetic potential for mining crypto
cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, regulation, transactions , unbanked, cryptocurrency exchange, digital assets, crypto asset, crypto, financial services
Abundance floats with the innovation of open-source tooling and the encouragement of open collaboration on creative blockchain projects. Gwendolyn Regina, head of BNB Chain, revels what this abundance means for the evolution of Web 3.0
blockchain, Web 3.0, data, digitalisation, DeFi, banks, e-wallet, unbanked, Ethereum, metaverse
Pan-African fintech startup with a focus on gig economy ImaliPay has announced it received USD 3 million in a seed funding round, with the participation of Leonnis Investments, Ten 13, Uncovered Fund, My Asia VC, and others.
funding, startup, fintech, gig economy, online payments, unbanked, financial inclusion, BNPL, insurance, payments infrastructure
India-based private sector bank Axis Bank has announced its association with The Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH).
partnership, financial inclusion, unbanked, fintech
Akulaku, a digital banking and finance platform in Southeast Asia, has raised USD 10 million in debt funding from Lend East.
funding, digital banking, unbanked, financial inclusion, BNPL
As fintechs are causing traditional lenders to act in order to catch up and rethink the products and services that they are offering, financial inclusion remains one of the key topics to be addressed, as more than half of the world’s working adults are excluded from financial services
fintech, financial inclusion, financial services, ESG, digitalisation, unbanked, banks, digital banking, cashback, financial institutions
Indonesian peer-to-peer lender Amartha is in talks to acquire 70% of local bank PT Bank Victoria Syariah.
acquisition, IPO, unbanked, funding
Challenger credit card provider, Keebo, has joined forces with global information services company, Experian, in a move to improve access to credit for underserved consumers.
partnership, Experian , unbanked, credit scoring
Fintech Bankera, together with several other fintech companies operating in the EU, has joined an international initiative to fight the IBAN discrimination.
IBAN, SEPA, unbanked, bank transfer
UK-baed PPS, a one-stop-shop for prepaid and fintech programmes, has announces its partnership with alternative e-money provider for the financially excluded Suits Me.
partnership, e-money, banks, unbanked
US-based Mercury Financial, a financial inclusion technology company, has announced the closing of a new USD 400 million warehouse facility.
financial inclusion, funding, credit card, unbanked
Kenya-based Lendable, an emerging market fintech credit provider, is targeting a USD 100 million closed-ended fund focused on emerging and frontier market fintech investments.
funding, SME lending, unbanked, financial inclusion