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East Africa's Digital Dawn ClickPesa Debt Fund and Pendulum enter into funding and technology partnership for Tanzania's Microfinance Evolution
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ClickPesa Debt Fund and Pendulum Enter Into Funding and Technology Partnership for Tanzania’s Microfinance Evolution

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ClickPesa and Pendulum have teamed up in a technology partnership, leveraging the possibilities of decentralized finance (DeFi). In East Africa there is a huge SME funding gap. By employing DeFi solutions developed on the Pendulum blockchain, which leverages Polkadot and Stellar technology, Pendulum and ClickPesa Debt Fund strive to increase financial accessibility for SMEs by financing MFIs who have the reach,......
Morningstar and PitchBook Introduce New Indexes to Provide Investors with Deeper Insight into Emerging Venture Capital Companies
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Morningstar and PitchBook Introduce New Indexes to Provide Investors with Deeper Insight into Emerging Venture Capital Companies

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Morningstar, a leading provider of independent investment insights, introduces the Morningstar PitchBook Global Unicorn Industry Vertical Indexes, a suite of eleven indexes that take Morningstar’s global unicorn index series to the next level by offering insights into the industry trends that are propelling and shaping today’s venture capital innovation economy. The......
The Financial Technology Report Announces The Top 100 Financial Technology Companies of 2023
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The Financial Technology Report Announces The Top 100 Financial Technology Companies of 2023

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The Financial Technology Report is pleased to announce The Top 100 Financial Technology Companies of 2023. The Financial Technology Report is pleased to announce The Top 100 Financial Technology Companies of 2023. In a mere two decades, the world of fintech has taken center stage, fundamentally reshaping the financial services......
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What Is Financial Technology?

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Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe, Plaid, Chime, Ripple, NuBank, Paytm, and the list can go on… In the current year, the fintech space is worth an astonishing figure of $179 billion. There are no less than reported 30,000 fintech startups. Feeling like you have heard or read these somewhere? Well, these......
MarketAxess Launches Open Trading® for Emerging Market Local Currency Bonds
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MarketAxess Launches Open Trading for Emerging Market Local Currency Bonds

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MarketAxess Holdings, the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, announced that it has enhanced its award-winning Emerging Markets (EM) trading product with the launch of Open Trading for local currency bonds. The first tranche of local currency markets to be supported are Poland (PLN), Czech Republic......
Nearly 30 Percent of Americans Prioritize Buying the Latest Tech, Like iPhone 15, Over Paying Bills
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Nearly 30 Percent of Americans Prioritize Buying the Latest Technology, Like iPhone 15, Over Paying Bills

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Ahead of the release of the latest iPhone, LendingTree found that Americans prioritize the latest technology over paying essential bills LendingTree, the nation’s leading online financial services marketplace, released its survey exploring how technology is impacting consumers’ finances. Ahead of Apple’s event unveiling the new iPhone 15, the study found that 77%......
Visa Research Highlights Emerging Fraud Schemes in Retail and eCommerce
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Visa Research Highlights Emerging Fraud Schemes in Retail and eCommerce

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Latest edition of Visa Biannual Threats Report Show Increasingly Sophisticated Fraud Landscape for Consumers. Visa, a world leader in digital payments, released the Fall 2023 edition of its Biannual Threats Report which highlights emerging fraud schemes targeting the global economy. This edition showcases a significant rise of phishing schemes proliferated......
iMin Technology Raises US$5 Million to Accelerate Its Global Expansion
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iMin Technology Raises US$5 Million to Accelerate Its Global Expansion

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Singapore-based iMin Technology has recently secured US$5 million in Series Pre-A funding led by Yonghua Capital, as the demand for digital commercial devices like point-of-sale terminals, industrial scanners, and self-service kiosks continues to rise globally. Founded in 2018, iMin Technology is dedicated to its brand promise and plans to leverage emerging technologies and opportunities......
Blockchain Technology Capabilities Can Resolve Key Barriers to Ecosystem Development.: BurstIQ Named in Gartner Report
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Blockchain Technology Capabilities Can Resolve Key Barriers to Ecosystem Development.: BurstIQ Named in Gartner Report

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The recently released 2023 Gartner Emerging Tech: Network Effect Is Critical to Blockchain Solution Success states, “Blockchain-based solutions are ideal for business ecosystems characterized by a lack of trust, process efficiency and asset transparency.” The research further describes the resulting “network effect” blockchain systems enable. “The network effect is defined as the......
CoinFund Reinforces Commitment to Web3 Technology with the Close of $158M Seed IV Fund
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CoinFund Reinforces Commitment to Web3 Technology with the Close of $158 Million Seed IV Fund

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CoinFund, a leading cryptonative investment firm and registered investment adviser, announces the close of $158 million (M) CoinFund Seed IV Fund LP (“Seed IV” or “The Fund”), backed by a combination of sophisticated institutional investors, family offices, and high net worth individuals. CoinFund Seed IV LP exceeded its initial target......
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