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Facial Recognition Technology Rapidly Picking Up Steam with Banks and Fintechs
Advancement in biometric technology, including facial recognition, touch ID fingerprint sensors and voice recognition, is creating new opportunities for fintech innovators to streamline the customer experience. Facial recognition in particular is seeing rising adoption in Asia but also other parts
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From Libra to WhatsApp Pay — A Glance at Facebook’s Fintech Play
For years, social networking giant Facebook has shown interest in the fintech market, partnering with PayPal to build digital payment capabilities into its Messenger app, testing and introducing payment services on its various messaging platforms, and exploring blockchain and cryptocurrency
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Credit Card Issuers Ramp Up Tech Innovation
In the age of mobile wallets, peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps, and cryptocurrencies, credit cards are transforming to keep up with the changing landscape. The rise of fintech and digital platforms have ushered a new era in the payments sector, and
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11 Fintech and Blockchain Events in the Philippines to Attend in 2019
Philippines is described by some as a hidden gem in the South East Asian fintech scene, our previous Fintech Philippines 2018 report demonstrates that this archipelagic nation has all the recipes in place for a booming fintech sector. A similar
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2 Game-Changing Developments From MAS that Happened in September 2018
Singapore has aspirations towards becoming a fintech hub in the ASEAN region, and global eyes have been raptly observing the island nation’s progress. Singapore is said to be welcoming of outside talents if they have a good idea to elevate
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Top 100 Financial Inclusion Companies According to IFC
Through innovative business models, products and use of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, digital identity and the Internet-of-Things (IoT), fintech companies are making significant progress in promoting financial inclusion, according to a new report co-authored by
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Singapore’s NETS Joins Forces with India’s NPCI
NETS today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with National Payments Corporationof India (NPCI), an umbrella organization for all retail payments and settlement systems in India, to enable cross-border usage of their payment solutions in India and
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50 Disrupting Fintech Facts About Mobile Wallets & Payments – An Infographic
“Mobile Wallets are the future.” In a lot of places, the future is already here. This is especially true in developing countries where smartphones are offering users their first taste of the internet. But there’s so much more to it
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Vietnam’s Zalo Pay Brings Payments To Social Media in Vietnam
Zalo Pay, a product of ZION, is bringing mobile, contactless payments to Vietnam’s popular social media and messaging platform Zalo. Launched in 2012, Zalo is a free message and call mobile app used by 70 million people. Zalo entered the
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Opening Shot For International Regulation For The Fintech Industry
There is a Chinese saying that roughly translates to ‘A Tall Tree Catches The Wind’ (树大招风) and this is an adept saying for the Fintech industry. The fintech industry had grown from its nascent stage in 2005 and it is
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