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UK antitrust regulators give Visa’s fintech acquisition a green light
The United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority, has given the go-ahead to Visa’s acquisition of fintech startup Plaid following a Phase 1 review. According to ...
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The Bahamas’s central bank put its digital currency on its official balance sheet in April
In a financial statement published in late April, the Central Bank of The Bahamas achieved a little-known milestone — including its brand-new digital ...
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Ping An’s OneConnect fintech arm expects flurry of deals in Southeast Asia as Covid-19 spurs shift to digital banking
OneConnect Financial Technology, a cloud-based fintech platform controlled by Ping An Insurance (Group), expects to see “accelerated growth” in Southeast Asia as the ...
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Qatar’s National Solarized Fintech Strategy Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic might help to further Qatar’s national strategy in the fintech and blockchain spaces to reduce the crisis’s impact. Qatar is ...
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BlackRock, Temasek Set Up China Asset-Management Joint Venture
Blackrock and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings Pte received approval to jointly build an asset-management business in China with one of its biggest banks, bolstering ...
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Virgin Atlantic to resume London-Lagos flights September 10
Virgin Atlantic has announced that flights from Lagos to London will resume on September 10. This comes after Hadi Sirika, the minister of ...
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MTN appoints Ralph Mupita as Group President and CEO
MTN Group has announced that the current group CFO of MTN Group, Ralph Mupita, has been appointed as the new group president and ...
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Russia and China De-dollarization Approaching ‘Breakthrough
Alexey Maslov, director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, told the Nikkei Asian Review that the ...
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More Singapore firms set to adopt fintech to boost efficiency: CPA poll
Surveys conducted have shown about 73 per cent of Singapore businesses expect to use at least one fintech product or service in the ...
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Fintechs form coalition to fight racial inequality
Some of fintech’s biggest names including Credit Karma, Monzo and Varo have joined a new coalition to fight racial inequality in the industry. ...