The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday said the global lender needed more resources to help heavily indebted countries, citing a ...

About 43 million National Identity Numbers have been submitted by telecommunication companies to the National Identity Management Commission for verification in order to ...

X1, the startup behind a “smart” credit card, has raised $12 million in a funding round led by Spark Capital. The round was ...

DriveMe, a fleet service provider in Nigeria has announced the launch of its driver hailing and driver training platform, which will allow car ...

Volopay, a Singapore-based startup building a “financial control center” for businesses, announced today it has raised $2.1 million in seed funding. The round ...

Goldman Sachs (GS) posted fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday that surpassed Wall Street’s estimates by a mile, as revenues jumped 18% from a year ...

Financial Services Innovators (FSI) collaborates with Startup Arewa to implement a Fintech challenge tagged “ArewaFemtechFest” with the theme “FINANCIAL INCLUSION FOR FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS ...

Simon Cooper becomes internal ‘heir apparent’ to Bill Winters at emerging-markets lender Standard Chartered’s head of investment banking has emerged as the leading ...

Mobile adoption witnessed a boom in 2020. According to the recently released State of Mobile analytics by App Annie, over 640 million app ...

Minna Technologies, which sells in its subscription management services into banking apps has raised $18.8 million (€15.5 million/£14 million) in Series B fundraising ...

With digital banking gaining popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic, challenger banks on both sides of the Atlantic have seen surging customer growth over ...

Convergence is nothing new, however as technology evolves this is being taken to unprecedented levels. The cloud, the endpoint, the edge and now ...

Singapore’s fintech industry continued its momentum in 2020 on the back of new regulations, fintech initiatives from regulators themselves and the introduction of ...

China’s Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), a permissioned blockchain network for building decentralized applications and tokens – plans on releasing a beta central bank ...

After a long antitrust investigation, Google officially acquired the wearable device brand, Fitbit for $2.1 billion in the last week. At present, Fitbit ...

London-based startup Perchpeek used to call itself the “Tinder for renters”, offering a platform to help people find their ideal property. Then, realising ...

UK business banking platform Tide is embarking on international expansion, beginning with a limited test launch in India in the first quarter of ...

Stephen Harper, an economist and the former prime minister of Canada, said bitcoin could potentially see use as a reserve currency, but it ...

Biometric payment cards have ticked several important boxes in the last year. The technology has achieved certification from major payment networks, costs have ...

The Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) and the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) have begun the implementation of a system to ...