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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2022: Vote for Your Favorite!
It's time for NextBillion's “Most Influential Article of the Year” contest, in which we select our 12 most-read articles from the past year and invite readers to choose their favorites. We welcome you to read the articles and to vote by scrolling down to the voting app at the bottom of this announcement — or at the individual articles in the contest, which are linked in this announcement and posted on our homepage. You can vote up to one time per hour during the voting period, which will run from Dec. 21 to Jan. 3. We wish you a happy holiday season and a prosperous new year!
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Energy, Environment, Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Kredito Banks $6 Million as the Latin American Business Lender Eyes International Expansion
Over a year after grabbing $4 million in pre-seed funding, Chile-based Kredito, a business lending startup, is back with another $6 million in new funding.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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African Telcos Target Minors With New Mobile Money Solutions
African telecom operators are re-imagining these accounts, lining up digital junior wallets to allow young individuals aged below 18 years old to make more transactions over mobile phones.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, savings
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A Hidden Driver of Financial Inclusion: Why Enabling Regulation is Essential to Fintech Success in Emerging Markets
Fintech innovation is jumpstarting financial inclusion around the world, driven in part by enabling regulation which allows providers to experiment with new approaches. But as Monica Brand Engel, Ganesh Rengaswamy and Jonathan Whittle at Quona Capital explain, it can be difficult for regulators to simultaneously fuel innovation, adapt to new technologies and government mandates, and protect customers. They explore what the fintech sector can learn from successful regulatory approaches in countries like Brazil and India.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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Yaydoo Buys Oyster to Scale B2B Payments Solutions Across Latin America
B2B solutions provider Yaydoo has acquired payments solution Oyster Financial in a move to boost its position as a B2B payments solution provider in Latin America.
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- Uncategorized
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- Latin America
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Indonesia’s Ayoconnect Raises $13 Million Series B+ Led by SIG Venture Capital
The new funding will enable Ayoconnect to continue building out a leadership team, and to invest in product and technology development.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Southeast Asia’s Fintech Fazz Finalizes $100 Million Series C Round Led by Tiger Global
Southeast Asia’s Fintech platform Fazz, a business account for companies of all sizes, recently secured $100 million via Series C funding.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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BNPL Firm BillEase Raises $20 Million to Bolster Financial Inclusion for Filipinos
BillEase, one of the fastest-growing consumer finance apps in the Philippines, has announced that it has raised $20 million.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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