Sri Lanka-based fintech Genie has partnered with Bank of Ceylon to act as the financial acquirer and digitize payments through its mobile wallet solution. 

The World Bank estimates that one in ten people in Yemen wholly rely on money transfers to meet their basic needs. Remittances to Yemen in 2019 totaled $3.8 billion - 13% of GDP.

Mary Ellen Iskenderian joins Fintech Beat to discuss how COVID-19 could end up revolutionizing how low-income women access capital.

Both Denarii Cash and GCash share the same commitment of offering convenient and affordable financial services to Filipinos.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, FTSI, an independent provider of branch and digital transformation solutions for financial institutions, has introduced a new product, Smart Lockers for Banking.

The unprecedented crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic has severely dented Sri Lanka’s economy, causing a steep fall in the earnings from tourism, remittances and outflow of foreign investment, the nation’s central bank has said.

Digital payments saw a revival in May, after the government granted some relaxation during the third and fourth phases of the lockdown.

With the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the need for new and evolving digital payment services has become even more urgent.

The UK-based company shuttered its India business on 13 April as 10 out of 14 lending partners withdrew their products within three days of the launch of a nationwide lockdown.

Supported by J.P. Morgan, the program will provide immediate relief and longer-term recovery support to 3,500 women entrepreneurs running microenterprises.