2023 LATAM SME-Focused Fintechs
2023 LATAM SME-Focused Fintechs After our 2022 LATAM Fintech Report, we now dig into the most relevant data to focus on how SMEs are benefiting from fintech solutions. We are thrilled to present our report on LATAM SME-Focused Fintechs – ready for download here! Our team at KoreFusion is glad to schedule a call and […]
EEMEA Gaming Landscape: Value Chain, Trends, and Opportunities
EEMEA Gaming Landscape: Value Chain, Trends, and Opportunities While the EEMEA market is currently small, the gaming payments opportunity is large. Growth is expected to be significant and above the global average, due to the many growth drivers across the value chain. Despite this expansion, there are no significant local game payments solutions, though some […]
Global Overview: SMB E-Invoicing Mandate Trends
Global Overview: SMB E-Invoicing Mandate Trends Introduction Governments around the world are expanding their use of e-invoicing mandates to increase tax compliance, which is driving demand for e-invoicing solutions and services. To understand the extent of e-invoicing mandates as well as the implications for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), KoreFusion conducted a global assessment evaluating […]
Fintech in 2022: Four Trends That Will Shape Financial Services in 2022
Quarterly update for Mastercard Start Path Corporate Members, key trends which are shaping fintech and likely to grow in importance in 2022. We consider how fintechs are improving supply chains through digitization, the increasing prominence of digital currencies, impact of sustainability-focused fintechs, and the intersection of fintech and marketplaces. Q3 2021 Fintech Funding Update In […]
The Rise of Fintech Intermediaries
Start Path Quarterly Report by Mastecard, Latest trends in Fintech Each quarter we bring you insights and updates on trends in the Fintech landscape that impact financial services and support the creation of value. Mastercard Start Path has partnered with KoreFusion to dig into these trends and illustrate how they are unfolding across the globe. […]
Ethnicity can be a Challenge or an Asset for Financial Services:
Thoughts Derived from Observations of Nigeria’s Open Markets
Financial Services Often Overlook Ethnicity Fintechs rely on scalable growth. Offering products at scale favors dividing markets into broadly addressable cohorts or clusters such as age, smartphone penetration, income, and financial services acumen. What is often overlooked is the role of ethnicity and culture, and this can be a critical mistake. This is perhaps most […]
Nigeria’s Mobile Money Payment Service Bank is a Giant That is Still Waiting to Awake
Mobile money is the driving force for financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa. In a 2020 report, the GSMA identified Nigeria as one of ‘Africa’s sleeping mobile money giants’— an assessment made in view of the country’s adult and unbanked population as well as the lack of Telco mobile money operations. There was an expressed […]
KoreFusion’s Top50 B2B Marketplaces in Emerging Markets
B2B Marketplaces across the world, and especially in Emerging Markets, became a hotspot of growth and investment in the past year. KoreFusion compiled the list of the TOP50 largest and best-funded B2B Marketplaces in Emerging Markets (excluding China). We identified the different regional and sector models across the world, and analyzed how these players make […]
The Fintech-ification of e-commerce, latest trends in Fintech by Start Path & KoreFusion
Mastercard Start Path has partnered with KoreFusion to bring you insights and updates on trends in the Fintech landscape that impact financial services and support the creation of value. In this update we look at the convergence of e-commerce and Fintech and how its accelerated growth was brought by Covid-19. Download Report
Embedded Finance: This Decade’s Largest Creator of Value
Embedded Finance is the embedding of all types of financial products into clients’ life journeys and it is about to create US$ 7 trillion of market value by 2030. The transformation is driven by the shift to e-commerce, and the beauty of it is that it enables non-financial services companies to offer banking and payment […]
