Mexico-based FinTech Aviva has raised $5.5 million in seed funding. “This oversubscribed round highlights the strength of our model’s unit economics, as well as our mission to provide innovative and accessible financial services to a market of 70 million people who are still underserved or...
ACI Worldwide has teamed with Mexipay to promote real-time payment use in Mexico. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Nov. 28), will see Mexipay use ACI’s payment platform to deploy ISO 20022 real-time payments and other payment services in Mexico. “Mexico was an early adopter of real-time payments, with its Sistema...
In the bid to build a financial services ecosystem, and a super app that marries commerce and banking, there’s a 800-pound gorilla in the space that bears watching. Though Walmart’s previous and ongoing efforts to branch out into banking have not yet borne the fruit...
Could a central bank digital currency (CBDC) help America’s unbanked population? It appears that way, according to a new report by the Digital Dollar Project (DDP). The organization announced Thursday (Aug. 3) it had wrapped a pilot study conducted in collaboration with Western Union, BDO...
August 10, 2023
In the bid to build a financial services ecosystem, and a super app that marries commerce and banking, there’s a 800-pound gorilla in the space that bears watching. Though Walmart’s previous and ongoing efforts to branch out into banking have not yet borne the fruit it may have wanted, the “what if” question must be […]
February 03, 2023
The conventional wisdom is that the shift to digital payments has led us all away from cash. Jamison Jaworski, GM-SVP of retail and Green Dot Network at Green Dot, and...
July 07, 2021
One of the lesser-known troubles of the modern economy is the prevalence of unbanked and underbanked individuals. Unbanked individuals lack access to bank accounts while underbanked individuals have bank accounts...
January 06, 2021
With no credit scores, limited financial transaction histories, and a huge amount of people who don’t even have a bank account, lending money in Vietnam is no simple task. While...
November 03, 2024
Mexican FinTech Klar is reportedly aiming to go public at the end of 2026. Juan Sarmiento, the company’s vice president of finance, told Bloomberg News Saturday (Nov. 2) that Klar is eyeing annual run rate of $500 million as a target for its initial public offering (IPO), projecting that it will hit that number in […]
August 05, 2024
Mexico-based FinTech Aviva has raised $5.5 million in seed funding. “This oversubscribed round highlights the strength of our model’s unit economics, as well as our mission to provide innovative and...
November 28, 2023
ACI Worldwide has teamed with Mexipay to promote real-time payment use in Mexico. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Nov. 28), will see Mexipay use ACI’s payment platform to deploy ISO 20022 real-time payments and other...
August 03, 2023
Could a central bank digital currency (CBDC) help America’s unbanked population? It appears that way, according to a new report by the Digital Dollar Project (DDP). The organization announced Thursday...
