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Visa To Enable Deeper Financial Inclusion With Offline Payments in India
The technology will allow users to make transactions using chip-based Visa debit, credit, and prepaid cards even in places with low or no internet connectivity.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Mexican Neobroker Flink Raises $57 Million To Boost Financial Inclusion in Latin America
Flink, a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Latin America
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pawaPay Raises $9 Million Seed Backed by MSA Capital, 88mph and Mr Eazi’s Zagadat Capital
PawaPay is tackling technical complexities in creating a unified infrastructure for businesses that need digital payments.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Rise of the ‘Carbon Capitalist’
According to Matthew Roling, Aside from wealth creation, there will be at least two other benefits to scaling the carbon market.
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- Finance
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- Global
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Three Common Mistakes Startups Make When Running Lean Experiments – And How To Avoid Them
Reaching product-market fit is critical to growing a startup, but the process can be chaotic, as founders must solve multiple problems at once. But while planning and strategizing can address some of these issues, Akansha Kasera and Malika Anand at Catalyst Fund argue that the most robust solutions come from experiments and iterations. They explore the lean experimentation approach used by Catalyst Fund's portfolio companies, share a free product-market fit toolkit that can guide experiment design — and highlight three mistakes to avoid during this crucial process.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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Ayala Ventures, Foxmont Capital Join Philippine E-Commerce Enabler Etaily’s $1.6 Million Seed Round
Etaily claims it has generated more than one million transactions and made more than 50K unique products available in countries such as the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Financial Services That Work for Young People: How Social Norms Impact Financial Resilience Among the Youth in Africa
Financial service providers are capable of reaching young people in Africa, but not without a deep understanding of how social norms and expectations are impacting their financial access and usage, say Lise Paaskesen at Lise Consultancy and Weselina Angelow at the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute. They explore research that suggests how providers can improve young people's opportunities and resilience by offering services that foster autonomy, decision-making and bargaining power — which in turn can contribute to changing social norms in those areas.
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- Finance
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Fintech Company CapitalSage Technology Raises $4 Million To Accelerate the Company’s Growth
CapitalSage Technology Limited's expansion is mostly driven by their agenda to provide sustainable and inclusive digital financial infrastructure.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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