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India's state banks continue to suck in taxpayer money as the sector struggles for financial health. Over the past four years the government has...
Indonesia is a cash economy with credit card usage limited to about one percent of the population. "The low adoption of credit cards...
It's getting harder to gauge the seriousness of a cyberattack. Capital One, widely admired for its focus, saw credit details of 100...
Is Iran trolling US president Donald Trump? It's very, very likely. The Iranian government has approved plans for cryptocurrency mining,...
Midway through 2018, it became clear that an inexorable shift was happening in the banking world, as funding started to flow in larger...
As Lafferty News has been helpfully pointing out for the last year, the world's retail bankers, investors and venture capitalists have switched their...
We've been flagging for 18 months that the big new market opportunity in retail banking is as part of the growing ecosystem serving the small and...
ING has been working with Mastercard and 200 small businesses in Turkey to pilot an on-phone point of sale system, or true Mpos, ten years...
Equifax seems to have gotten off lightly with a mere $800 million fine for allowing hackers to make off with the data of 150 million people....
India's bellwether bank HDFC has announced a slowdown in growth and a hit to asset quality in a sign of troubles in the economy. "The...
The big US banks produced strong earnings this week but there's a sense that the playing field is starting to tilt against them, reports Reuters....
Writing about SME banking, it's astonishing how often bankers shake their heads sorrowfully when asked to explain why it's so difficult to lend...
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