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How this social entrepreneur is bringing banks to the fingertips of the unbanked
Humaniq was launched in 2016 with a vision to build a world where the unbanked and underbanked around the world also have access to the banking and financial transactions. An estimated 2 billion people can be brought under the umbrella of financial inclusion with Humaniq’s services.
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WhatsApp’s Integration of UPI-Based Payments Has Strategic Consequences for India’s Digital Economy
The partnership defies 20th century notions of a public private partnership, and offers a glimpse of the private sector tipping its hat to the sovereign function and prerogative in identifying and authenticating the beneficiaries of a digital service.
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Responsible Finance: Moving Money from Mattresses to Mobiles
Technology has made it possible for lower-income people living in developing countries to access financial services that were previously beyond their reach. FINCA Impact Finance CEO Andrée Simon says her firm's new smartphone app, SimSim, which recently emerged from its pilot phase and already has 35,000 users, strikes a balance between the personal touch and modern fintech automation.
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GetBucks $30m issue under subscribed
GetBucks had, through the issue of a medium term note, become the first listed firm to attempt to raise funding on the bourse through the listing of a debt security.
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Juvo raises $40 million to bring financial inclusion to emerging markets
Juvo joins companies like Branch and Tala in bringing financial services to the underserved in developing markets.
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Steep fees call into question bitcoin’s promise for the underbanked
Abra set out in 2014 to make mobile money movement cheap and fast worldwide, using the bitcoin network as rails.
But lately the fees for transferring value on that network have risen, creating a predicament for the startup: charge more for sending funds with its mobile app, or eat the fees.- Categories
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FINCA gears up for digital disbursement solutions in Pakistan
The bank will use gadgets to get all necessarily details of the client via biometric verifications, thereby reducing the loan-processing time to within 48 hours. Apart from gadgets, the bank’s newly launched mobile wallet, SimSim appears to be the management’s hope to increase foothold in rural localities.
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Runaway Trains of Thought: How Boosting Cognitive Bandwidth Can Fight Poverty
Cognitive bandwidth allows humans to reason, focus and resist impulses – and unfortunately, we have only a limited amount of it. Everyone struggles to make decisions when they run low on cognitive bandwidth, but the added stress of poverty consumes more of it. Creating simple ways to free this bandwidth, whether through money or time, can elevate helpful anti-poverty programs into transformative ones, according to ideas42.
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