3+ week, 3+ day ago   (925+ words) The United Kingdom (UK) no longer needs to introduce itself to fintech. Revolut, Wise and Monzo became global names. London built one of the world’s deepest financial technology ecosystems. Open banking moved from regulatory experiment to everyday infrastructure, while the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (920+ words) Yemen does not have one straightforward financial system. More than a decade of conflict has divided the country politically, economically and increasingly monetarily. Different authorities operate from Sana’a and Aden, banks have been caught between competing regulatory demands and even…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (241+ words) Businesses still want fast, modern payment infrastructure, but they also want a real person behind the process when something goes wrong or when a compliance question needs answering. In this post, you’ll learn why human-led onboarding still matters, what subscription…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (938+ words) Few countries have had a more complicated relationship with money than Zimbabwe. Hyperinflation destroyed confidence in the Zimbabwean dollar in the 2000s. Foreign currencies subsequently became commonplace. A new local currency returned, inflation accelerated again and, in April 2024, Zimbabwe introduced yet…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (531+ words) Ecommpay is now live as a payment connector within PayControl's enterprise orchestration platform, giving merchants direct acquiring across multiple regions. The post Ecommpay Joins PayControl as Direct Acquirer on Orchestration Layer appeared first on The Fintech Times. Ecommpay has gone…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (804+ words) Uruguay rarely attracts the same fintech headlines as Brazil or Mexico. That is understandable. With only around 3.5 million people, its entire population is smaller than that of many Latin American cities. A fintech company focusing exclusively on Uruguay encounters a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (224+ words) Cameron Thomson, group vice president for the EMEA theatre at enterprise communications company Avaya, watched regulated organisations wrestle with exactly that tension at the company’s Journeys UK event in London. His answer starts with reframing the question itself. “Financial institutions…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1056+ words) Rowen Brooks is an AI staff writer at Disrupts Media, the publisher of The Fintech Times, The Biotech Times, The Datatech Times and Disrupts. She reports across all four titles, covering financial technology, biotechnology, data and the wider field of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1050+ words) Zambia has achieved something remarkable in little more than a decade. In 2011, only around one in five adults had an account with a financial institution or mobile-money provider. Since then, access to formal and digital financial services has expanded dramatically....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (518+ words) Srinivasan Seshadri of HCLTech argues autonomy in financial services is not automation, and that trust must be engineered into every AI-driven action. The institutions getting this right aren’t chasing a destination. They’re progressing along a spectrum. And the ones making…...