New legislation and regulatory changes in Egypt are set to unleash a surge in new fintech investments and change the way the country’s largely unbanked citizens do business, industry players say. 

Women’s World Banking’s Fintech Innovation Challenge provides a global stage to highlight fintech innovations focused on building women's security and prosperity in the face of global inequalities.

While enabling the market to do it’s work, the event also aims to explore how the fintech community can make financial services more accessible, understandable and impactful.

The initiative aims to help clients and communities by providing blended financial and non-financial digital services including advisory services, training and more to assure ease of access to e-money and transfers for its customers.

The initiative comes as part of Egypt’s fintech and innovation strategy that aims to achieve the state’s goals in using technology, as well as promoting innovation and financial inclusion.

hoolah, a two-year-old Fintech startup offering Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment solutions, confirmed that it is moving forward with its plans to expand into Asian markets.

Fintechs that adequately handle this increasing regulatory oversight will demonstrate their maturity.

Central banks and their partners have innovated across machine learning, cloud services, payments and more.

Announcing the 2020 Inclusive Fintech 50, a group of startups driving inclusion and resilience for the 3 billion financially underserved people globally.

Fintech companies will remain profitable and offer SME’s better opportunities to grow following the economic downturn, says new report.