Category: Digital Lending and Credit

May 25, 2023

The collaboration comes as Saudi Arabia‘s digital payments ecosystem undergoes a rapid transformation in line with the country’s Vision 2030 initiative, which aims to increase cashless transactions to 70 per cent by 2025. Through the partnership, D360 Bank customers can […]

May 5, 2023

Apple’s newly launched high-yield savings account has reportedly attracted around $1 billion in deposits within its first week. The Apple Card savings account, launched in April in partnership with Goldman Sachs, offers US consumers a high-yield annual return of 4.15% […]

May 5, 2023

The U.S. economy is struggling with a trifecta of challenges: soaring inflation, steep interest rates, and a banking industry in disarray. Since Silvergate Bank’s announcement on March 8, 2023, that it would cease operations and liquidate its assets, the country […]

May 2, 2023

A myriad of unforeseeable “consequences” will be brought about by retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) claimed. The IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva erred on the side of caution regarding retail CBDCs in […]

March 23, 2023

Romain Mazeries, CEO of Mangopay, describes WhenThen as “a strategic asset” for the firm’s growth plans. Mangopay, which is a platform-specific payment infrastructure provider, says WhenThen’s payment acceptance technology and “global connectivity”, will help Mangopay “rapidly scale its entire payment […]

March 23, 2023

Cross River provides technology infrastructure such as scalable embedded payments, cards and lending solutions to “millions” of consumers and businesses. The company’s embedded solutions and customisable APIs will be utilised to power Pay.com’s international expansion, giving businesses and merchants access […]

March 8, 2023

More consumers than ever are embracing digital methods to pay bills. In our research we found that 54% pay using the biller’s website, 33% use the biller’s mobile app, and 8% pay remotely using cash at a retail location. What’s […]

February 22, 2023

BNPL offers a lifeline for some and flexibility for others, and there is an argument that it broadens financial inclusion. Research conducted by Divido in February 2023 suggests that almost three fifths of British consumers (58%) believe point-of-sale (POS) financing […]

February 9, 2023

Openpay announced a new quarterly record in Q2 of FY2023, growing its revenue to A$10.1million. This was in addition to the total transaction volume (TTV) growing by almost 50 per cent to A$126million, in comparison to the previous 12 months. […]

February 7, 2023

In an announcement to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), the firm says it will “work closely with Openpay’s employees, merchants and customers to urgently determine the appropriate strategy for the business”. It adds customers are currently no longer able to […]

January 30, 2023

Simon York, HMRC’s outgoing head of serious fraud, recently said that tax evasion was “much more complex, more sophisticated, more international and more digitally enabled”, while adding that HMRC will now be actively pursuing enablers of evasion. Interestingly, both financial […]

January 19, 2023

The Buy now pays later platform market is predicted to increase at a CAGR of 22.8% from 2023 to 2033, from US$ 9.1 billion in 2023 to US$ 70.9 billion in 2033. E-commerce Market Offers Consumer Diverse BNPL Options Customers […]

January 12, 2023

Until now, Orka Ventures has focused mainly on providing web-based consumer loans. However, with changing consumer demand for more agile service delivery and Orka Ventures’ evolution into a neobank, it will now leverage agile modular processing and compliance capabilities from […]

December 28, 2022

Pakistan’s markets regulator issued new guidelines for digital lending in the country, cracking down on several sketchy practices that it said have become prevalent in the South Asian market. The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan said Wednesday evening that […]

December 19, 2022

Ninety-three per cent of SMEs in the tech sector are not paid on time for providing goods and services, according to research from alternative funding provider Growth Lending. Its Don’t Bank On It report also reveals that a third of […]

December 8, 2022

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman doesn’t expect the economic environment for e-commerce, a major driver of business for the digital payments company, to improve anytime soon. Reflecting on the see-saw nature of holiday e-commerce in recent years, he noted at an […]

November 15, 2022

The metaverse and its future adoption continue to be a matter of active research by market forecasting companies. A report issued on Nov. 11 by Technavio, a market research firm, has determined that the market size of the metaverse initiatives […]

October 27, 2022

The credit environment will be challenging for the foreseeable. Over the next three years, almost half (46 per cent) of SMEs believe accessing credit/finance/borrowing will get more difficult. This level of perceived difficulty rises to 64 per cent for those […]

October 14, 2022

The capital raised includes a $15 million Series A led by Index Ventures, with participation from seed investors First Round Capital, General Catalyst, SV Angel, Operator Partners, Box Group, among others. With the fresh funding, Mercantile plans to further its […]

October 13, 2022

Existing investors Edison Partners and Revaia took part in the round and Italian paytech Nexi joined in as a new investor. With the fresh capital, GoHenry intends to fuel its global expansion, with plans to launch Pixpay (which it recently […]