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Only 4% of US Households Are Unbanked
Only 4% of US Households Are Unbanked
November 12, 2024  |  Consumer Insights

The percentage of households in the United States that are unbanked declined to a record low in 2023. At 4.2% of U.S. households, or 5.6...

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Mexican Banking FinTech Klar Aims for 2026 IPO
Mexican Banking FinTech Klar Aims for 2026 IPO
November 03, 2024  |  IPO

Mexican FinTech Klar is reportedly aiming to go public at the end of 2026. Juan Sarmiento, the company’s vice president of finance, told Bloomberg News...

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Aviva Raises $5.5 Million to Provide Financial Services to ‘Underserved’
Aviva Raises $5.5 Million to Provide Financial Services to ‘Underserved’
August 05, 2024  |  Investments

Mexico-based FinTech Aviva has raised $5.5 million in seed funding. “This oversubscribed round highlights the strength of our model’s unit economics, as well as our...

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ACI and Mexipay Launch Real-Time Payment Partnership
ACI and Mexipay Launch Real-Time Payment Partnership
November 28, 2023  |  Real-Time Payments

ACI Worldwide has teamed with Mexipay to promote real-time payment use in Mexico. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Nov. 28), will see Mexipay use ACI’s payment platform to deploy...

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What If: Walmart Succeeds as a Neobank?
What If: Walmart Succeeds as a Neobank?
August 10, 2023  |  Walmart

In the bid to build a financial services ecosystem, and a super app that marries commerce and banking, there’s a 800-pound gorilla in the space...

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Digital Dollar Project: CBDCs Can Help the Unbanked
Digital Dollar Project: CBDCs Can Help the Unbanked
August 03, 2023  |  CBDC

Could a central bank digital currency (CBDC) help America’s unbanked population? It appears that way, according to a new report by the Digital Dollar Project...

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Tala Money App Gains 800,000 New Customers in First Half
Tala Money App Gains 800,000 New Customers in First Half
July 20, 2023  |  Financial Inclusion

Tala added 800,000 new customers in the first half of the year — a 114% increase in growth compared to the first half of 2022....

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BNY Mellon and MoCaFi Partner on Payments to Unbanked People
BNY Mellon and MoCaFi Partner on Payments to Unbanked People
June 08, 2023  |  Financial Inclusion

BNY Mellon and MoCaFi have partnered to ease payments to unbanked and underbanked people. With this collaboration, banking giant BNY Mellon’s Treasury Services business will provide a...

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Digital Wallets and Networks Shake Up the $630 Billion Global Remittance Market
Digital Wallets and Networks Shake Up the $630 Billion Global Remittance Market
May 25, 2023  |  Payment Methods

The global remittance market — where hundreds of billions of dollars flow across borders annually — is being reshaped by digital disruption. Late last year,...

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