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Press Release: Asian Fintech Firm TrueMoney Partners With Thunes, a Global Cross-Border Payment Network, to Expand Its Global Remittance Services
The partnership will transform the way people pay, send, and receive money in SEA, enabling TrueMoney's 58 million users to receive remittances across 100 countries.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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Interview: How COVID-19 Will Affect Impact Investing in India
Geeta Goel, country director, India, of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, talks about the need for responsible capitalism
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- Coronavirus, Education, Investing
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- South Asia
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Venio Launches ‘Nano-Credit’ Lending App to Boost Financial Inclusion in Emerging Markets
‘Nano-credit’ mobile application company Venio has begun offering credit facilities for the unbanked consumers in the Philippines.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Facebook’s WhatsApp to Partner with More Indian Banks in Financial Inclusion Push
“We now want to open up with more banks over this coming year to help simplify and expand banking services, especially to the rural and lower-income segments,” Abhijit Bose, WhatsApp’s India head told a fin-tech summit via a webcast.
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- Finance
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Press Release: Western Union Expands With TrueMoney in the Philippines
Five thousand TrueMoney locations across the Philippines to provide Western Union Money Transfer Services
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Pivot and Persist: Analytics Startup Uses AI to Monitor Social Distancing Amid Coronavirus
Amid coronavirus, Pune-based retail analytics startup Glimpse Analytics has repurposed its AI device to alert in case of social distancing and occupancy limit violations in stores and offices.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- South Asia
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Indian Startups Diversify Their Businesses to Offset COVID-19 Induced Losses
“This pandemic has given an opportunity to the Indian tech startup ecosystem to have a harder look at the unit-economics of their businesses and become more capital efficient in the shorter and longer-term,” Puneet Kumar, a growth investor in Indian startup ecosystem, told TechCrunch in an interview.
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- Coronavirus
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Next Phase of India’s Skill Programme to Focus on Quality, States’ Role
The Centre will soon unveil the next phase of its flagship skill development programme, the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), which will primarily focus on the role of states, the fate of migrant workers, and the employment scenario.
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