The COVID-19 outbreak and the economic downturn it triggered gave the fintech sector in Bulgaria a chance to see various opportunities for mass adoption of financial technology in the near future.

Sri Lanka’s HNB has reported a smooth transition to contactless remittance transactions parallel to rising demand for digital remittances and cardless withdrawals during the coronavirus lockdown.

Digital payment transactions through the Unified Payment Interface (UPI), cards and mobile wallets have made a near V-shaped recovery this month.

Even before coronavirus came, Pakistan’s microfinance sector was sniffling.

Since the economic slowdown resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, work for many of them has dried up. The UN is supporting efforts to manage the large-scale influx of returnee workers.

Symbiotics is broadening its fund research expertise with a new survey on Private Asset Impact Funds.

The aim of this partnership is to channel much-needed financing to agricultural and small and medium-sized exporters as well as microfinance institutions in Egypt in response to the economic difficulties brought about by COVID-19. 

IFC announced a $50 million loan to Nigeria’s First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Limited to help it expand lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) so they can sustain business activities disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first tranche of the credit facility amounting to $10 million will extend loans to over 25,000 women-entrepreneurs owning small businesses, which suffer from the economic impact of the (COVID-19) pandemic. 

Coronavirus lockdowns cost millions of migrant workers their jobs, halting billions in remittances they sent home.