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Visa And Nest To Roll Out FinTech Bootcamp In Africa
Mobile service provider Safaricom has announced that it is in discussions with five companies to broaden the availability of M-Pesa services.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech, venture capital
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Catching the FinTech wave: A survey on FinTech in Malaysia
In 2015 and the first half of 2016, US$345 million, representing 11% of total venture capital funding in Southeast Asia went into FinTech. The region’s growing economies and relatively large underbanked populations make it doubly attractive for new market entrants. We set out to assess Malaysian financial service players’ attitudes towards this emerging segment through an online survey and several interviews of top management from both the incumbents and newcomers.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- fintech, venture capital
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The Surprising State of Equity Crowdfunding Post-JOBS Act
From savings to banking to investing… finance is moving online. With this, we’re seeing the disruption of venture capital brought about by new laws that may change the game for how entrepreneurs can raise funding and who can invest.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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With ‘Silicon Valley’ model, UNICEF invests in tech start-ups working to improve children’s lives
Using a venture capital approach – investing in companies with short track records but long-term growth possibilities – the United Nations Children’s Fund announced today the first five emerging market start-ups to which it will provide seed money to source solutions for issues like transportation, wearable technology, finance, and personal data.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Discovery to Take South Africa e-Health Entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley
South African insurance firm Discovery has launched its Entrepreneurs Medical Technology programme, which will take local e-health startups on a trip to Silicon Valley later this year.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Looking beyond the hype at fintech in Southeast Asia
From the offices of Venture Capital firms to the financial services districts, you may not be able to escape the promising whispers of fintech startups. Take a structural shift to mobile, an ever decreasing cost of computing power, the availability of lots of (big!) data, mix in one part artificial intelligence, one part distributed ledgers and we have the perfect recipe for how technology will change the face of banking and insurance forever.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- fintech, venture capital
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The rise and rise of Mexican fintech
The financial services space ticks all the right boxes entrepreneurs look for when launching a company: hard to solve problems, meaningful impact, transformational technologies, clear business models and a solid financing environment.
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- Technology
- Region
- Latin America
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- fintech, venture capital
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10 new VC investors who are upbeat on Indian start-ups
The venture capital gold rush to India that began with Tiger Global Management’s purchase of a slice of Flipkart in 2010 ebbed five years later, ending in cash crunch, valuation cuts and many shutdowns in India’s start-up landscape.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- South Asia
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