Fintech

Plans to register 0.5m Pakistani freelancers and help them increase market share

Reports suggest $30-50m price range for 100% acquisition of firm

Ant Group, with 11 overseas Alipay+ partners, launches program for International Consumer Friendly Zones in China

Mobile wallets, regulatory advances, innovation propel fintech sector into digital future

Raise concerns over regulatory complexities, cyber security risks, data privacy

Over 450 local companies have adopted Abhi’s products

By leveraging OPay's fintech technology, Pakistan can accelerate digital transformation and achieve 'de-cashisation'

AdalFi’s proprietary technology scores the financial transactional data already possessed by banks

State Bank of Pakistan granted Careem with an In-Principal-Approval with an EMI as the company plans to invest $50m.

Finja had earlier become the first fintech to receive approval for the licence

Two new ventures raise a total of $6.6m

Over 40% of fintech staff in Britain come from overseas

Objective is to raise share of mutual fund asset class from 1.6% to 5% of GDP

Indonesia’s 270 million population, half lacks bank accounts but most now have mobile phones

ePay app provides general public with a stress-free and efficient method of paying all taxes

In August 2019 Akamai observed a record-breaking attack against a financial firm

Dutch royal reiterates support for poverty alleviation in meeting with premier

Dutch queen will be in Pakistan till Nov 27 in her capacity as UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate

An international platform for the fin-tech community to come to connect, collaborate and co-create with each other

Financial firms in Britain will lose unfettered direct access to investors in bloc

The report offers ways to generate more “homegrown” tech talent as immigration faces curbs after Brexit

And that worries the Fed

Provides back and middle-office services to more than 1,700 firms

Frankfurt stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse plans to unveil the new composition of the index

The exchange has applied for a digital exchange license in Malta

PTA takes steps to enable transactions across all mobile networks

A list of some of the industry's main lingo

Widens access to Britain's interbank payments system

CreditFix was launched in part by DFS Lab, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed accelerator

Financial technology firms trying to fill a gap in the credit market left by large lenders

The payment card allows users to retroactively choose a different credit or debit card for a purchase

The growing use of computing power in vehicles is paving the way for self-driving cars

OneGram hopes to raise more than $500 million through the initial coin sale

The annual competition invites innovative ideas from all over country in the field of financial technology space

Financial institutions could lose much of their revenues to fintechs over the next three to five years

The deal is part of a mooted US$1.5 million capital injection