financial inclusion

Is Square’s Focus on Bitcoin at Odds With its Goal to Deliver Financial Inclusion?
Is Square’s Focus on Bitcoin at Odds With its Goal to Deliver Financial Inclusion?
November 23, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

Square has always put financial inclusion is at the heart of its mission. Whether it can get there on bitcoin alone is another question. The...

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Square’s tbDEX Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange to Fight Financial Inequality
Square’s tbDEX Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange to Fight Financial Inequality
November 21, 2021  |  Bitcoin

U.S. digital payment company Square has debuted plans for a decentralized bitcoin exchange, tbDEX, according to an 18-page white paper by the company. The paper...

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Circle Details Plans for Using USDC to Advance Financial Inclusion
Circle Details Plans for Using USDC to Advance Financial Inclusion
November 17, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

Circle, a payments company and stablecoin operator, has introduced several new avenues toward financial inclusion, the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (Nov. 17). The initiative...

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Credit Sesame Debuts Free Credit Builder Banking Service
Credit Sesame Debuts Free Credit Builder Banking Service
November 17, 2021  |  Financial Inclusion

Financial wellness platform Credit Sesame on Wednesday (Nov. 17) rolled out its new credit builder banking technology, an all-in-one bank account that gives consumers the...

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China’s Whale Cloud Teams With Mexico’s Toka FinTech to Develop Payment App
China’s Whale Cloud Teams With Mexico’s Toka FinTech to Develop Payment App
November 10, 2021  |  B2B Payments

China-based Whale Cloud, which provides telecommunications software solutions, has partnered with Toka Fintech, based in Mexico, to develop a new digital payment app with Alipay+...

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Mastercard Launches Campaign to Support SMBs, 50 Years of NYC Marathons
Mastercard Launches Campaign to Support SMBs, 50 Years of NYC Marathons
November 04, 2021  |  Mastercard

Mastercard is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the TCS New York City Marathon, and is honoring the small businesses that have kept the city running...

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Mastercard Debuts Card for Visually Impaired
Mastercard Debuts Card for Visually Impaired
November 03, 2021  |  Payment Methods

2.2 billion. That’s the number of visually impaired people around the world that Mastercard is committed to bringing into the financial fold, with the introduction...

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Bitcoin Daily: Singapore FinTech Nium Debuts Crypto-as-a-Service Platform; BlockBank Readies Launch of DeFi App Powered by AI
Bitcoin Daily: Singapore FinTech Nium Debuts Crypto-as-a-Service Platform; BlockBank Readies Launch of DeFi App Powered...
October 26, 2021  |  Bitcoin

Nium, which works in global payment and card issuance for businesses, has rolled out a Crypto-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution to allow financial institutions (FIs) to add...

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