by Red Hot Admin - 14 hours ago
Retail Banking is set to rapidly evolve in South Africa, explained consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in a recent report on the banking industry. The covid-19 pandemic drastically changed how consumers view and want to interact with their...
by Red Hot Admin - 15 hours ago
Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy, one of the three chambers operating under Dubai Chambers, has issued a recent report detailing plans to drive the emirate’s digital economy ambitions. This is part of its efforts to strengthen the digital economy eco...
by Red Hot Admin - 21 hours ago
Fintech is finding itself at a turning point amid rumblings the industry is ‘losing its lustre’. We’ve seen firms struggle to raise fresh funds, reports of falling valuations, fire sales, staff layoffs and recruitment freezes. Some fintechs have abru...
by Red Hot Admin - 1 day ago
Embedded finance has quickly been realised as an integral catalyst to the process of digitalisation for non-fintech companies. But as innovation in the space soars higher than ever before, many are beginning to question where the ceiling of embedde...
by Red Hot Admin - 1 day ago
Arbol, a global climate risk solutions platform, has reportedly transacted $170m in gross written premium (GWP) in 2022, marking significant growth and traction for the Arbol platform as it more than doubled its 2021 GWP of $70m. The InsurTech platfo...
by Red Hot Admin - 1 day ago
Celent's Alenka Grealish predicts that the winners in small business banking services will be banks which work with partners.
by Red Hot Admin - 1 day ago
Welcome to The Fintech Times Bi-Weekly News Roundup on Tuesday 31 January Mergers and acquisitions Card issuing platform Marqeta has agreed to acquire credit card program management platform Power Finance. The deal is expected to close in the first q...
by Red Hot Admin - 1 day ago
The cryptocurrency market as a whole has not experienced the best PR in the last 12 months. After crypto exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy in November, there have been enhanced calls for increased regulation in the space. Such news has also not been...
by Red Hot Admin - 1 day ago
Sentry Enterprises reinforces the security of its biometric access and cold wallet card solutions through a three-way partnership with IDEX Biometrics and Infineon Technologies. Sentry has doubled down on the security of its biometric identity platfo...
by Red Hot Admin - 1 day ago
A strong Q4 performance gave Tesla its most profitable year on record, with 1.8m Tesla units in 2023 predicted to be in production
by Red Hot Admin - 1 day ago
KITMEK, a new interactive digital school, has officially launched; costing just one dollar per month for children across MENA. The KITMEK digital school is three years in the making and aims to provide a global curriculum from kindergarten to fifth g...
by Red Hot Admin - 1 day ago
Private market exchange ADDX has listed a global macro hedge fund by Chua Soon Hock, the chief investment officer and fund manager behind Japan Macro Fund (“JMF”). In 2009, JMF had approximately $800million in assets under management (AUM). This was...
by Red Hot Admin - 1 day ago
BharatX, a ‘white label’ credit enabler for e-commerce merchants, has partnered with online men’s clothing brand Snitch. The partnership will see Snitch begin to offer buy now pay later (BNPL) services. The Snitch clothing brand can now...
by Red Hot Admin - 1 day ago
Unless you’ve been in a cave or on a beach over the past month (cue revenge travel meme), you’ll no doubt have heard of ChatGPT, the chatbot on steroids from the company OpenAI that is now fielding tender investment offers at a valuation of US$29 bil...
by Red Hot Admin - 2 days ago
Fintech is finding itself at a turning point amid rumblings the industry is ‘losing its lustre’. We’ve seen firms struggle to raise fresh funds, reports of falling valuations, fire sales, staff layoffs and recruitment freezes. Some fintechs have abru...