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Though facial recognition and other biometric verification processes are becoming ever more popular in the fintech world, bias remains rife within the technology, causing gaps in service for some customers.
Rick Song, CEO, Persona
Persona is an iden...
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M-Pesa is an example of a fintech that really did change lives and it deserves its special place in history.
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PayPal, a global leader in digital payments has launched the findings of its “UAE SMB and Freelancer Digital Readiness Survey” in partnership with British market research and data analytics firm, YouGov. The research aims to analyse how businesses in...
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PAY360, the annual conference for the payments industry, returned this week with The Fintech Times in attendance. More than 1,500 people attended the packed hybrid event at the Business Design Centre in London with 100s more turning into a live Zoom...
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Three of Egypt’s national banks – Banque Misr, National Bank of Egypt, and Banque du Caire – and Global Ventures, an MEA-focused venture capital firm – have launched Nclude by Global Ventures, following approval by the Central Bank...
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Rockaway Blockchain Fund, one of Europe’s leading funds investing in blockchain start-ups, has said that London and the UK could outstrip the rest of Europe to become a leader in Web3 development. The comments come as the VC firm holds its Inve...
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The Payments Association (formerly The Emerging Payments Association [EPA]), UK Finance, the collective voice for the banking and finance industry, and global law firm Latham & Watkins, have launched the ‘UK Payments Regulation Review: Maki...
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Reddit co-founder and tech venture capitalist& Alexis Ohanian called the «intersection of culture and finance» the most& fascinating recent development in the internet sector and an unprecedented liberalization of ownership and value for arti...
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Each week we take a look at some of the latest fintech news to hit the UK sector. This week, 24 per cent of UK adults are ready to invest in tokens in 2022 and Playter raises $1.7m to bring ‘buy now pay later’ to the B2B space.
ISA allowances “irrele...
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Ant Group, Alipay’s parent, has appointed Jia Hang as its new regional general manager for Southeast Asia.
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Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has appointed Jia Hang as its new regional general manager for Southeast Asia.
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A new eCommerce platform by Trust Payments, a fintech platform specialising in payments and value-added services for businesses, has been launched following the acquisition of Stor, a solution that offers merchants end-to-end online shopping tools, e...
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Almost a quarter of Britons are ready to invest in tokens or NFTs this year, according to a new national survey.
Tokens – a new way to access assets previously reserved for the wealthy few – are also seen as technologically secure forms of investment...
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Dongnae, a South Korea-based startup that helps tenants find premium apartment rentals, has closed $16.4 million (20 billion KRW) in equity and $4.1 million (5 billion KRW) in debt. The Series A funding brings its total funding raised to approximatel...
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SeaTown Holdings, an indirect subsidiary of Singapore’s state-owned investment company Temasek Holdings, is raising funds for its private capital fund from private investors for the first time.