UPI Won the Payment War. Now It Has a Revenue Problem.
By Tom Simpson, Founder, Digital in Asia Everyone loves the UPI story. And why wouldn’t they? A country that had 190 million unbanked adults a decade ago now runs the … Read more
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India’s Digital Payments Revolution Is Unlike Anything the World Has Seen Before
In the space of a single decade, India built the world’s largest real-time payments network, enrolled 1.34 billion citizens in a biometric identity system, and created an open-finance data-sharing framework … Read more
Q3 APAC Fintech Funding Hints at Nascent Recovery
The first three quarters of 2020 saw APAC fintechs raise a combined $3.9 billion, down 46% compared to the same period last year, while deal volume fell by 20.5% to … Read more
Data-driven Singapore Fintech Startup Delivers AI Credit Scoring
Rely, a Singapore fintech company that provides shoppers with an interest-free ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ service for online retail, recently announced a seven-figure Pre-Series A funding round led by Goldbell … Read more
How Blockchain Technology is Reshaping the Future of Global Payments
Since the creation of Bitcoin in 2009, cryptocurrency has been touted as the future of banking, payments and financial services. And the future of every other global industry obviously. Sometimes … Read more