December 01, 2022
Telecoms Seek to Unlock Financial Services for 1.7B Unbanked
The digital banking renaissance has laid out a golden opportunity for telecom companies. Although states have largely eased their pandemic restrictions, many habits consumers picked up in the past few...
November 30, 2022
Unbanked Launches Crypto Card in Europe
Unbanked has expanded its cryptocurrency card program to Europe. The New York-based crypto FinTech announced on Wednesday (Nov. 30) that eligible residents in the U.K., Norway and all EU member...
November 30, 2022
How eCommerce Can Unlock the Latin American Retail Scene
PYMNTS talks with Karen Bruck, vice president of commerce and strategic initiatives at Mercado Libre, about the unique opportunities and challenges in Latin American eCommerce. — Latin America’s eCommerce market is expanding rapidly, especially as...
November 29, 2022
Jingle Pay Launches Mastercard for Unbanked UAE Residents
Jingle Pay has partnered with Mastercard to issue physical and virtual cards to users of its financial app. The Dubai-based FinTech said in a Tuesday (Nov. 29) press release that...
November 22, 2022
FCA Calls for Credit Rating Reform
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is calling for a reformation of the way credit rating agencies (CRA) in the country operate and are governed. In a November report, the...
November 20, 2022
Open Banking APIs Help Africa’s Mobile Money FinTechs Expand Services
According to International Monetary Fund (IMF) data, there are more than twice as many mobile money accounts as there are bank accounts across many African countries. To give just one...
November 16, 2022
Bankful Looks to Help Unbanked SMBs After Rebrand
Payment service provider Pinwheel is rebranding as Bankful as it shifts from serving smaller businesses to financial institutions of all sizes. According to a Wednesday (Nov. 16) news release, banks...
November 10, 2022
Latin America May Be Holiday Gift Cross-Border Merchants Are Seeking
Winter gifting holidays are as important in Latin America as anywhere, and online retailers want to tap that potential not just to bolster 2022 receipts but to develop future markets...
November 09, 2022
Billtrust CEO Says Middleware and Not Standards Key to Modernizing...
Billtrust CEO Flint Lane predicted that B2B’s modernization would not come in one fell swoop, underpinned by a global standard — a language of data, so to speak — that...
Individuals with mobile phones outnumber those with bank accounts in the most underbanked regions of the world, offering the telecom industry a prime opportunity to fulfill a vital role. In this month’s “Telecommunications Payments Tracker®,” a collaboration with i2c, four telecom providers tell PYMNTS how the industry is ideally positioned to provide financial access to unbanked households.