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Amazon Tracker: Where The Customers Are
Amazon Tracker: Where The Customers Are
September 01, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon is meeting its customers where they are. In the U.K., the eCommerce giant is letting shoppers load up their accounts using cash, and in...

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Juvo Raises $40 Million To Expand Into New Markets
Juvo Raises $40 Million To Expand Into New Markets
August 02, 2017  |  Startups

Juvo, the San Francisco tech startup that focuses on financial inclusion and helps unbanked consumers in emerging markets improve their standing from a financial perspective...

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Abu Dhabi Partners With CMA Kenya To Expand FinTech Network For Both
Abu Dhabi Partners With CMA Kenya To Expand FinTech Network For Both
August 02, 2017  |  International

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) of Kenya have partnered in order to provide an information sharing framework to support...

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Sub-Saharan Africa Driving Mobile Money Market
Sub-Saharan Africa Driving Mobile Money Market
July 13, 2017  |  International

More than half the world’s mobile money deployments are coming from a perhaps unexpected source: Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in a way, that balance makes sense....

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Google’s Big Mobile Moves In India
Google’s Big Mobile Moves In India
July 13, 2017  |  Google

Over the last 18 months, India has moved full-speed ahead from a nearly entirely cash-based society to one with ambitions of being totally cashless. The...

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Everyone Hates Payday Lenders And Check Cashers (Except The People Who Use Them)
Everyone Hates Payday Lenders And Check Cashers (Except The People Who Use Them)
June 27, 2017  |  Loans

Everyone hates consumer lenders — politicians, consumer groups, prayer circles — except the people who use them. They tend to like the products — and...

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Indonesia In Billionaire Investor Tim Draper’s Crosshairs
Indonesia In Billionaire Investor Tim Draper’s Crosshairs
June 08, 2017  |  Investments

Where might investment riches lie in Asia? One billionaire investor, Tim Draper, sees promise in Indonesia. And the lure there may come in bits and...

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MoneyGram, Ant And Making The “Unbanked’s Bank”
MoneyGram, Ant And Making The “Unbanked’s Bank”
May 18, 2017  |  Financial Inclusion

On Tuesday, MoneyGram’s shareholders gave an unequivocal thumbs up to the buyout by Ant Financial. With one more hurdle yet to clear, CFIUS approval, MoneyGram CEO Alex Holmes tells Karen...

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BillMo’s Value Proposition To Disrupt Money Transfers
BillMo’s Value Proposition To Disrupt Money Transfers
May 04, 2017  |  Mobile

With a $500 billion market opportunity and the proliferation of mobile devices among unbanked or underbanked consumers globally, the money transfer space is primed and...

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