The Latest Breaking News from fintech

Shares of fintech company Affirm Holdings (AFRM) have plummeted more than 75% in price year-to-date. The company has been dealing with economic and credit cycle headwinds, which impacted its financials. Its profitability is expected to be significantly affected by shrinking consumer spending. Hence, we think investors should stay away from…

Prime Minister Modi said the fintech domain in India has earned goodwill by being an enabler of inclusion, and there is a need for continued focus to empower the poorest of the poor by taking quality financial services to them.

The fintech gained a wave of new customers after signing up to the Covid bounce back scheme, but now a third of the loans it made have gone bad

Key Takeaways: Sinolink will buy about 156 million new shares in ZhongAn’s overseas business development unit, ZhongAn International, for about $103 million The deal comes in a difficult year for ZhongAn, whose own cash holdings are dwindling By Warren Yang

Green Check Verified (GCV), a leading fintech provider of compliant cannabis solutions and services to financial institutions, announced deal terms, to acquire PayQwick, which has been servicing underbanked cannabis businesses with payments and lending since 2015. The deal was unanimously approved by both boards.

Property finance firm opens its first site outside of London and is looking for new staff to fill it

The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) on Wednesday announced that it has updated the Framework of its Regulatory Sandbox. The move is part of its efforts to achieve several national strategic goals by promoting the regulatory sandbox's involvement in the Financial Sector Development Program (FSDP), a key objective of the Saudi…

Continued digitization of businesses and financial transactions would drive the fintech industry’s growth. However, economic uncertainties and geopolitical headwinds have weighed heavily on investors’ sentiment surrounding fintech stocks. So, this may be the right time to offload fundamentally weak fintech stock Block (SQ) and load up promising industry participants Everi…

Grab Holdings Ltd and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd plan to roll out a banking app next week, joining tech giants like Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co in taking advantage of the country’s fintech liberalisation.