South Africa's top four banks are to begin the roll out of Payshap, a low value, interbank, real-time digital payments service aimed at increasing financial inclusion to the underbanked segement.
Egyptian fintech Money Fellows has raised $31 million for its mobile-based platform for money circles - where a group of people put money into a pot for a specific period so that they can save and borrow together.
Uma Wilson, EVP, chief information and product officer for UMB bank, joined Finextra for a chat during a break in the action on the exhibit floor of last week's AFP conference in Philadelphia. She talked about how banks can best answer calls for product innovation and partnership, and provide solutions to pain points that – in some cases at least – have long plagued customers, especially those in the corporate payments and treasury management space.
Revolut is adding a crypto spending mode to its debit cards in the UK and Switzerland, enabling customers to switch between crypto and fiat purchases whether online or offline.
Auriga, a global software provider for the omnichannel banking and payments industry, today announced a significant development of its digital self-service branch solution Bank4Me.