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Know your customer (KYC) service provider RecognID recently announced its global market expansion. After several years of serving as an identity proofing solution for existing partners, the team of MD Finance, a group of fintech companies, decided to give the product an additional boost and development. Based on its team’s experience in top-notch KYC, RecognID…

Today’s fintech is tackling an ancient challenge: how to move money across the world as fast and cheaply as possible. Bank-based methods are costly because commissions are charged by intermediary banks. Margins between buying and selling a currency are often between five and 10 per cent. These costs impact Australian businesses – especially exporters with…

StashAway, a Malaysian wealth management platform, has launched Flexible Portfolios. It is the first product in Malaysia that offers investors the choice to customise their portfolios with ease. Flexible Portfolios allows investors to pick the asset classes they want, decide their exact allocations, and change them any time. This new offering adds to StashAway’s drive…

Facilitating the country’s heightened interest in the web 3.0 space, Singapore Management University (SMU) has launched two new web 3.0 courses together with TechFin Consulting. The programme is set to focus on two major aspects of the highly anticipated web 3.0, decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) and the metaverse. The courses aim to equip fintechs and…

Cellulant has quenched the thirst of five Zambian water companies for paytech with digital payment integrations that will allow customers in the province to pay their water bills digitally. The Pan-African payments technology company is now engaged in partnerships with five of Zambia’s main water utility companies, including Nkana Water, Kafubu Water, Mulonga Water, Chambeshi…

In this episode of The Fintech Times Podcast, we discuss the important role of technology in financial education. Financial education can help people make well-informed choices and can encourage responsible behaviour. From budgeting to personal financial management, financial literacy is hugely important. In this podcast, Polly Harrison, features editor of The Fintech Times, chats to…

Both Abu Dhabi-based LuLu Financial Holdings and the Nepali money transfer service Samsara Remit join Aerotruth‘s commercial partner onboarding platform.  Aerotruth is an Australian and New Zealand-based startup. Its online platform has been designed to make the partner business-to-business (B2B) onboarding process for fintechs, banks and other financial institutions easier. The industry is currently experiencing…

The current rise of inflation has made many investors look away from risky ventures such as cryptocurrencies, and look to safer investments such as commodities. These are not always easy for the small investor to get a foothold in though, but blockchain and the introduction of synthetic commodity assets could change this.    Abhishek Singh…

Too often, online payments are slow, insecure and prone to friction. So how can instant bank payments help businesses offer a better customer experience? TrueLayer is a global open banking platform that makes it easy for anyone to build better financial experiences. Businesses of every size use TrueLayer to power their payments, access financial data,…