One of the lesser-known troubles of the modern economy is the prevalence of unbanked and underbanked individuals. Unbanked individuals lack access to bank accounts while...
Argentina’s mobile payments app Ualá plans to acquire Wilobank, the country’s first digital bank, Bloomberg reported on Friday (April 9), citing people with knowledge of the...
PNC Bank has gained certification from the Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund for a second bank account that limits fees. The nonprofit CFE Fund and...
With no credit scores, limited financial transaction histories, and a huge amount of people who don’t even have a bank account, lending money in Vietnam...
At a time when the coronavirus has caused a spike in unemployment and crippled countless small businesses, the pawnbroking industry has found itself in a...
France’s Orange Bank is launching completely mobile banking services in Africa, according to a press release. Patrick Roussel, executive vice president of MEA Mobile Financial...
With nearly 50 percent of the Latin American population unbanked, there's a growing appetite for mobile banking services. And the ongoing pandemic is only accelerating...
Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. The European Union’s financial...
Bukalapak, one of the largest eCommerce companies in Indonesia, is getting bigger. With the backing of the Ant Group, the Chinese affiliate of the Alibaba Group, Bukalapak is vowing...