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financial inclusion
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B2B PaymentsThe Payroll Card Pursues Stronger Employer-Employee Ties
Direct debit may seem like the obvious choice for employees to receive their wages,...
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Digital PaymentsCardknox Rolls Out New Option For Processing Online SNAP Payments
Grocery stores and other retailers looking to process SNAP EBT payments online just got...
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B2B PaymentsSHRM Debuts New Faster Pay Solution For Unbanked Americans
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has announced its new SHRM Payment Solution,...
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Consumer FinanceThe Rise Of Teen Checking Accounts And Creating A ‘Fiscally...
Americans have a financial literacy problem — or to be totally accurate, they have two financial...
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BitcoinBitcoin Daily: Ripple Boosts Digital Financial Inclusion; Stellar CEO Named...
Stellar CEO Denelle Dixon will be part of a new four-person panel on the...
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InvestmentsRetailo Raises $2.3M In Seed Round To Boost Financial Inclusion
Retailo, the Riyadh-based B2B eCommerce startup, has announced $2.3 million of funding in a...
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Digital PaymentsMastercard: Why It’s Time For Card Issuers To Up Their...
For most consumers, change is a funny thing. It can be almost impossible to...
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EconomyPayPal Provides $5M In Grants To Support Minority Businesses
PayPal Holdings Inc. provided $5 million in grants to support Black-owned businesses in the...
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GoogleGoogle To Help Students Pay Off Loans With New Program
Google has rolled out a new student loan repayment program, the tech giant announced...
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Financial InclusionCiti To Put Over $1B Into Fighting Racial Wealth Inequality
Citi will take action to help close the racial wealth gap in the U.S.,...
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Financial InclusionHave A Credit Card In Your Purse? Thank Ruth Bader...
The nation mourns this week as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie...
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Digital PaymentsWhy Cash Is No Longer King In The Country Of...
Digital commerce was undeniably progressing in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in...
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Financial InclusionMastercard Commits $500M To Boost Black Communities, Businesses
Mastercard said it will invest $500 million in Black communities across the U.S. over...
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CryptocurrencyBrazil Says Central Bank Digital Currency Set For 2022 Rollout
The race toward central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is tightening, with Brazil reportedly looking to...
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InvestmentsB2B Cross-Border Payments Network Thunes Raises $60M
Thunes, the FinTech startup which operates a global cross-border payments network for emerging economies,...
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AmazonAmazon India Adds Insurance, Gold To Its Offerings
Amazon.com Inc.’s 100 million registered customers in India now have access to more financial...
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Financial InclusionAmerican Express Launches New Credit Score Management Tool
If you are interested in not just tracking your credit score, but finding ways...
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B2B PaymentsContis Applies For RBS Bailout Fund, Looking To Develop SMBs
Payments provider Contis has applied for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Banking...
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financial appsGrab Launches Microinvestment Solution, Consumer Loans, BNPL Plans
Grab Financial Group (GFG), a Southeast Asia financial technology (FinTech) and ridesharing company, is...
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Financial InclusionMastercard’s Head Of Innovation: How The Microsoft Partnership Will Boost...
Payments and commerce players are used to rapidly changing landscapes. One of the defining...
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Digital PaymentsIndia’s UPI Hits $1.34B In June Transaction Volumes
India has embraced its model for digital payments so much that it intends to...
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Digital PaymentsUS Senate Committee Weighs Pros And Cons Of Digital Dollar
Digital dollar advocates told a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday (June 30) that electronic...
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Financial InclusionZogo: How A 21-Year-Old Duke University Grad Is Reinventing Financial...
When Bolun Li was in high school, a local bank came in and offered...
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Financial InclusionDr. Annamaria Lusardi: FinTech Is Great, But No Substitute For...
Everyone in a modern society needs to know how to read, so America spends...
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Digital PaymentsExperts Tell Congress It's Time To Create A 'Digital Dollar'
Trillions of dollars in federal COVID-19 stimulus payments are being disbursed through paper checks,...
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MastercardMastercard Expands Global Commitment To Connect 1B People
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt worldwide economies and everyday life, Mastercard vows...
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Merchant InnovationMastercard: The Impact Of Pay On Demand On Africa’s Smartphone...
Inclusion is a laudable goal — bringing the 1.7 billion unbanked and underbanked people...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsMastercard, Samsung Tie-Up Lets Consumers Pay On Demand
Mastercard is partnering with Samsung to bring digital technology to emerging markets and accelerate...
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Gig EconomyDeep Dive: Catching Up On The Freelance Payment Curve
No freelancer appreciates delayed payments, which can destabilize their financial health. The flexibility that...
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Payments InnovationSaudi Arabia Makes Digital Push To Lessen Cash Reliance
Saudi Payments, a state-owned payments apparatus, has partnered with stc pay, another Saudi Arabia...
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MastercardMastercard: The Role Of ‘Instant’ In Improving Consumer Financial Health
To improve the financial lives of millions of Americans, speed matters — especially for...
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Digital PaymentsMoneyGram Launches First-Ever Ukraine Bank Deposit Service
Peer-to-peer payments service MoneyGram will partner with Industrialbank to create a new bank deposit...
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RegulationAML/KYC Compliance Just Got Harder
The European Union’s Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD) went into force on Jan. 10,...
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Digital BankingNY Lawmakers Push For Public eBanking System
Lawmakers in New York have proposed a public electronic banking system that would essentially...
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B2B PaymentsHow FinTech Tackles Financial Inclusion For India's SMBs
With a robust community of technological innovators, and a drive toward the digital economy,...
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SMBsWhat The UAE Is Teaching Global FinTechs About SMB Banking
It’s not easy being small — especially in business, and often when it comes...
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FacebookZuckerberg Tells Congress That Libra Fills A Global Payments Void
It may be a bit ironic that the halls of Congress are known, colloquially,...
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MastercardMastercard’s Philanthropic Hub Hosts Summit On Financial Inclusion
Mastercard's philanthropic hub hosted its first Global Inclusive Growth Summit in Washington, D.C. on...
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FacebookZuckerberg’s Testimony Paints Libra As Financial Inclusion Tool
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the United States House Of Representatives Committee on...
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CryptocurrencyLibra’s Unraveling And The Geneva (Crypto) Convention’s Folly
After the mass exodus on Friday (Oct. 11) from the Libra project, the cryptocurrency’s...
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Financial InclusionJPMorgan Commits $25M For Altruistic FinTech Services
JPMorgan Chase is committing $25 million to its Financial Solutions Lab in an effort...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsAirfox, Mastercard Team To Expand Digital Banking In Brazil
Digital challenger banking startup Airfox has announced a partnership with Mastercard Brazil to expand...
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CryptocurrencyDavid Marcus Defends Libra As Payments Champion For The Unbanked
The co-creator of Facebook’s recently announced cryptocurrency, Libra, said the currency was created to...
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FacebookWhy PayPal Agreed To Take A Seat At Libra’s Table
In the aftermath of Facebook’s unveiling of Libra and its Calibra wallet, among the...
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FacebookWhat The Launch Of Facebook’s Libra Means For Payments
The endless speculation over Facebook’s plans to build a new set of global payments...
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Faster PaymentsRussia Joins The Faster Payments Revolution
The rise of faster payment systems has become a global phenomenon. In the past...
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MastercardMastercard Bets On Biometric Cards To Advance Inclusion
In early May, Mastercard, in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social...
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Financial InclusionSquare Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Launches Refugee Business Initiative
Twitter CEO and Square Co-Founder Jack Dorsey has started an initiative to help entrepreneurs...
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Financial InclusionTrulioo Teams With Refinitiv To Bring 5B Consumers Into The...
Call it the curse of innovation, perhaps. It’s that tendency (seen often in payments...
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CashWorldwide ATM Installations Dipped In 2018
The number of ATMs installed during 2018 declined by 1 percent on a worldwide...
