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Stay up-to-date on all the all the latest FinTech news and information from around the world in the BFC FinTech Monitor and telegram channel FinTech Wave. Around the World: In 2019, …

The financial services industry is shifting from open banking to an impending phase called Open X. Learn how to thrive on the Open X shared marketplace in this informative World …

Internet company Ozon has announced the launch of its own card. The MasterCard World PayPass card serves as a payment instrument as well as gives users access to a loyalty …

With a lower-than-ever-before barrier to entry, bigtechs are starting to see the financial sector as a highly-profitable way to expand their businesses and give consumers even more. In fact, there …

A new online platform (ISMET.kz) represents the next step for what a marketplace can offer businesses in Kazakhstan. Created by Kazakhtelecom JSC, it is the first B2B site in the …

BFC experts took part in E-Commerce and FinTech Hackathon 2019, which was held June 14-16, 2019 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. During the event, participants were given 54 hours to turn their …

The Digital Tools for the Development of Insurance Product Partner Sales roundtable was held in Moscow, a first-ever discussion between insurance companies, intermediaries and IT experts in the country. The …

FinTech in Central and Eastern Europe is coming on strong, with fertile environments in which to grow innovations and governments that are doing their best to acquire new investments. These …

PAYMO has announced that it is developing a system to unite providers and consumers of financial services in one information space as part of an effort to provide consumers with …

Beneath the surface of the internet exists a largely hidden world – the dark web. Find out what the dark web is and what goes on there in this short …

The volume of information in the world is increasing exponentially, and it is becoming difficult for consumers to analyze it all. For this reason, they are turning to mediator platforms …

There are three main banking services people routinely use: payments for products/services (i.e. transfers from one account to another), lending (i.e. borrowing funds from a bank for a specific purpose …

The United Kingdom (UK)’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled some new proposed measures following a post-implementation review of its crowdfunding rules. The FCA says it has observed “some poor …

We live in a world where startups are emerging everywhere thanks to the idea of aggregated information. For example, to buy a car, you no longer have to go from …

Alfa-Bank has launched Alfa Network, a Russian-language marketplace platform, in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Alfa Network allows users to post and find offers for trade transactions, buy and sell assets …

Find out how adopting the ‘bank as a platform’ approach will help banks shift to a model of service offerings and achieve greater and more sustainable economic value. Finland using …

The marketplace lending industry, which is less peer-to-peer these days and relies more on packaging and selling bonds to fund its business, seems to be taking a page from recent …

Amazon is partnering with Bank of America as part of an effort to expand its lend-tech program for small businesses that sell on Amazon. Amazon Lending is an invitation-only program …

As alternative lending matures into what many are calling “alternative lending 2.0″, it is worth taking a look back at the sector’s evolution since 2005 — from Zopa pioneering peer-to-peer …

Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, has created special accounts as part of a new banking service. This new service, however, does not imply that Amazon intends to launch its …