Fidelity led the round, underscoring the US appetite to extend capital to the fast-growing fintech ecosystem.

It’s also a region that has strong growth potential: In the Middle East and Africa, POS financing solutions accounted for 4.8% of all POS transactions last year, according to The 2021 Global Payments Report by Worldpay from FIS.

eMarketer was pleased to moderate a Tech-Talk Webinar featuring AppsFlyer’s Chad Greenleaf, senior vice president, client services, and Barak Witkowski, vice president, product, along with Stash’s Tyler Pennell, vice president, growth. Together they shared valuable lessons learned throughout the iOS 14.5 readiness process, where the industry stands now, and best practices for a privacy-centric future.

Splitit partnered with UAE-based BNPL provider tabby, and Singapore-based fintech Fave launched its BNPL service in Singapore and Malaysia as global appetite for installment lending services increases.

The Middle East and Africa ranks second by this measure, as many consumers there were mobile-first internet users and have long been able to carry out banking and other financial transactions on mobile devices. At the other end of the spectrum, the mcommerce share in North America will be less than half the percentage in Asia-Pacific, at an estimated 38.2%.

The Global Media Intelligence Report is a concise, detailed compilation of data and insights about internet users’ traditional and digital media usage in 43 key markets worldwide. With very few exceptions, this 2021 edition covers the same range of metrics we featured in 2020, and the consistency of GWI’s methodology enables us to offer precise year-over-year (YoY) comparisons.

Advertisers in the Middle East and North Africa spend more on social than on any other digital ad format. In 2020, $1.73 billion went to social advertising, more than double what the next biggest format, video, brought in.

Who’s winning the sprint to become a financial services super app: At Money20/20 USA, Insider Intelligence gave financial services executives an advance look at our upcoming matrix compiling some of the industry’s most comprehensive data about global financial services super apps.

In every continent except Oceania, Android accounts for a greater share of smartphone web traffic than iOS.