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PayPal Leads $13M Funding Round for Insurtech Olé Life

Olé Life, supported by PayPal investments, focuses on redefining financial protection for families in Latin America by offering simple digital insurance products designed for long-term stability.

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Revolut Launches In-App Calls to Combat Phone Scam

By allowing customers to communicate directly within the app, the new Revolut service aims to reduce the risk of fraudulent phone scam activities.

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Citi GPS Identifies Agentic AI as a Transformative Force in Finance

A recent Citi GPS report reveals a significant rise in venture capital funding for autonomous AI startups, as the game-changing agentic AI technology attracted record investments in 2024.

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Alipay Tap Debuts in Macao

Sands China, a resort developer and operator, launched the mainland payment service Alipay Tap at Sands Resorts Macao in collaboration with Macau Pass and Alipay.

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Robinhood to Settle SEC Charges

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last Monday, January 13, reported that two broker-dealers of Robinhood, a financial services company, agreed to pay $45 billion in combined civil penalties to settle charges that they did not comply with a broad array of regulatory requirements.

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Klarna Scores Global Payment Deal With Stripe

Klarna has agreed on a major new distribution partnership with fellow fintech unicorn Stripe to expand its reach and add more merchants ahead of its listing in the United States.

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Trading Platform Groww Considers 2025 IPO

India’s largest retail stock trading platform Groww is eyeing an initial public offering (IPO) this year.

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Female-Led Fintech: Top Apps Addressing Gender-Specific Issues 

While the progress of gender equality in the world is unquestionable, a larger part of the global unbanked population is female, with the divide being more prominent in developing economies. However, select fintech startups focus on narrowing this gap, addressing gender-specific financial challenges with their tech-driven solutions.

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Nevermined Secures $4M Funding to Develop PayPal-Like AI-Commerce Platform

Nevermined received fresh funding to develop a payment system tailored for seamless transactions between AI agents, addressing the limitations of traditional payment infrastructure in the rapidly evolving AI-Commerce space.

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Whatnot Raises Funds at $5 Billion Valuation

Whatnot Inc., a livestream shopping platform that competes with TikTok Shop, raised $265 million at a valuation of $4.97 billion.

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BRISKPE Launches Unified Cross-Border Payment Platform for Indian MSMEs

The new BRISKPE platform integrates account-to-account (A2A) transfers, as well as card and wallet-based collections powered by PayU and PayPal.

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Moomoo Malaysia Partners GXBank to Facilitate Local Investing

To celebrate the partnership, new Moomoo users funding their accounts via GXBank are eligible for exclusive rewards.

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Salesforce Data Shows AI-Powered Shopping Boosts Online Holiday Sales

Salesforce has released a report stating that chatbots powered by artificial intelligence helped consumers purchase and return products during the 2024 holiday season, boosting online sales in the United States by almost 4% year-on-year.

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Fintechs Ramp Up Advertising Spending

Advertising has long ceased to be something unusual as a kind of social and, at the same time, in a sense, an economic phenomenon from the point of view of its own existence as a factor impacting the commercial performance of individual industries and brands, which means that people are accustomed to the fact that […]

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Barclays Reveals 2024 Financial Scam Statistics

In 2024, one in five consumers fell victim to scams, with the majority affected online, says Barclays fresh report.

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E-Commerce Trends 2025

What does online shopping have in store for consumers next year? As bricks-and-mortar sales still prevail, how can e-commerce win a fairer share in shoppers’ hearts? Let’s take a look at e-commerce trends expected in 2025 to find out.

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