Singapore is planning an online and physical fintech festival amid the spread of the coronavirus across the globe.

Brazil’s central bank has authorized testing of payments via Facebook Inc’s messaging service WhatsApp in the country easing an outright ban on the service imposed last month.

The proceeds of the Social Bond will be used to finance small and medium-sized enterprises within the trade, services and agriculture sectors, in particular the food industry, commercial stores and farms.

The investment particularly aims to bolster the ability of micro and small enterprises to continue operations in an environment made difficult by the COVID-19 crisis.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, online purchase transactions have been on the rise in countries including Brazil and Mexico.

Cash transfers from Yemenis abroad to their country have declined by 80 percent in the first four months of 2020, Oxfam announced on Thursday.

IFC will support developing more specially-designed products and services for women, as part of a move to help boost access to finance for women.

With Mastercard Cross-Border Services, financial service providers can seamlessly process digital payments leveraging its global network through a single connection, the company said.

SEEP is rewriting the rules for how Learning Spaces go from conception to delivery, through an iterative process that relies heavily on collaboration and co-creation.

Debt relief measures by micro-loan providers in Cambodia are failing to alleviate the serious financial burdens on indebted families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.