PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

The advance of digital payments in Latin America over the last two decades has been slow when measured against other parts of the globe. In a region where 80 percent of transactions are still carried out in cash, penetration remained low, and digital payments remained a tough sale. ” Latin America’s Digital Path Forward.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

Greensill, which provides working capital finance for customers around the world, has acquired Latin America-based lender Omni, a lender to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). trillion market for working capital finance. trillion market for working capital finance.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

According to a report in Reuters , by launching another tech-focused fund, SoftBank is increasing its ambitions in the technology market beyond its massive Vision Technology Fund. The new fund plans to invest in technology companies across Latin America, going after the same industries and sectors that SoftBank already invests in.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Visa has inked an agreement to acquire YellowPepper , which works with startups in the Caribbean and Latin America, according to an emailed press release. In Latin America and many other parts of the world, loyalty has become paramount for customers who want to pay how they want and at any time.

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Perficient

AUGUST 4, 2023

The report offers an in-depth overview of 38 digital transformation service providers, offering valuable insights into the market landscape. Envision Online builds on Perficient’s industry IP to help clients reach strategic decisions faster and speed time to market.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Visa and banking-as-a-service platform NovoPayment are expanding their strategic partnership to advance the deployment of digital solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, Visa said in a press release on Tuesday (Dec. Since partnering two years ago, Visa and NovoPayment have advanced digital payments across the region.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2020

“According to various embodiments, cash may be removed from the markets in a frictionless manner and the payment ecosystem may be improved.”. 100 for User A in America, 200 pesos for User B in Mexico and so forth) in order to perform transactions in a secure, fast and reliable way.”. “A

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

is accelerating market convergence for the Santiago (Chile) Exchange (Bolsa de Santiago), according to a Wednesday (Dec. It handles 98 percent of the overall volume traded in the local securities market and represents 90 percent of Chilean associated stockbrokers. 9) announcement emailed to PYMNTS.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Cross-border online payment service provider PrimeiroPay is partnering with Visa payment management platform CyberSource to open high-growth Latin America markets to merchants seeking access to those regions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

According to a Fintech Finance report, Gottschalk will be based in San Francisco and will focus on strengthening the fund via investment opportunities in the region. portfolio companies a stronger entrance into North America. It also gives the fund’s non-U.S.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As president and CEO of $50 billion-plus BOK Financial, Stacy Kymes spends time thinking about the role of regional banks in the U.S. Here's how BOK Financial finds unique niches and meets the credit and capital market needs in its core mid-America markets.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2019

The moves are designed to further last-mile operations in Latin America. Lange added that Latin America remains a “key market.”. Amazon and Walmart are but two of the marquee names focusing their efforts on the region. As reported by The Next Web, the last-mile arena in Latin America is marked by increased competition.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Chaves also said the company will earmark a percentage of the proceeds to accelerate financial inclusion in the region. Founded in 1999, based in Argentina and registered in the United States, MercadoLibre is an eCommerce platform and digital payment solution that operates across Latin America. 7 and are due in 2031, Bloomberg said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

The shift to digital commerce has opened up new markets for companies across all verticals and sizes. The complexities of striking up a local market presence — market by market, bank by bank — can quickly mount, maintained Schott, and result in missed sales, chargebacks, fines and penalties — and eventually, loss of reputation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Latin America is becoming a new weak spot for Uber, showing a 2 percent growth, the lowest of any region for the ride-hailing company, Reuters reported on Monday (Nov. Increased competition in Latin America, mainly from the Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, is being blamed for Uber’s growth slowdown in that region.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 17, 2017

In this report, we give an overview of 3 countries of each region (Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, Western Europe and Central & Eastern Europe) that had the biggest growth in direct carrier billing transaction volume.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

In its Financial Complexity Index 2017 report, TMF Group examined 94 jurisdictions in Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, Asia Pacific and Africa, diving into how various regulations change and how those changes might affect corporate finance. There are also an “extremely high number” of tax rules. Top Challenge Areas.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

With the addition of Thunes backing Paydek's local bank transfers into emerging markets, we are better positioned to offer an enhanced service to our clientele," Paydek Managing Director Terry Hopkinson said in the announcement. The newest round of funding was meant to power its expansion in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

What will it take to make Latin America more digital — in payments, commerce, FinTech or even healthcare? Cash remains king in the region, with about two-thirds of consumers in Latin America preferring that payment method over credit, according to estimates. Healthcare seems likely to play a role.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2018

but it may be smarter for those startups looking to break into that market to look at other regions, Eric Wiesen, general partner for Bullpen Capital, told Bank Innovation. “In EXCLUSIVE— The march of mobile banking and payments continues across the U.S., In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

MercadoLibre , which operates platforms for buying and selling goods across Central and South America, is eyeing an investment in Brazil next year that would be even bigger than its $716 million investment this year, Bloomberg reported. So, in the region there is an inequality in terms of the acceptance and regulation of open banking.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Earlier this year, we announced Perficient’s expansion into South America with the acquisition of Productora Software S.A.S. Building a team in this manner means more velocity and faster time to market. We [PSL] were the eighth company in the world to achieve CMMI Level 5, and the first one in all of Latin America.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In 6 years, Latin America (LatAm) fintech funding has grown from less than $50M to top $2.1B Social, political, and environmental pressures have made the LatAm market highly volatile. Latin American fintech companies are creating products aimed at rethinking banking, lending, and payments in the region. across 139 deals.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Ruben Salazar , Visa’s senior vice president and head of product and solutions for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Sergio Arana , novae’s founder and CEO, said points have a tendency to sit under-utilized by consumers, who often forget the programs even exist. They agreed that the trouble involves fragmentation and accessibility.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Using RippleNet, Ripple's global payment network, the partnership will take advantage of the ripe market for cross-border payments, which a July Juniper Research study said will be worth $35 trillion by 2022, the release stated. Cambridge also said there is a new degree of transparency and certainty with the new partnership.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Bantotal , a core Latin America banking service provider that works with 60 banks in 14 countries, has partnered with Bitex to perform cross-border payments using bitcoin blockchain, according to reports. A Bantotal spokesperson said the service is used by around 20 million people. Bantotal is based in Uruguay.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Digital payments firm PayPal is turning to Latin America to strengthen its position in the eCommerce payments and remittance arenas. At the time, MercadoLibre CEO Marcos Galperin said the investment would accelerate the company’s growth and leadership to “foster financial inclusion in Latin America.” Today (Dec.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The acquisition could have the effect of boosting PNC's presence in the southeast and west where the markets are growing quickly, according to WSJ. Big bank mergers have been scarce in the past decade since the financial crisis of the late 2000s, but despite that rarity, regional lenders have felt the crunch from bigger rivals like J.P.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

22) that showed double-digit percentage gains in volumes, driven by online commerce and increased traction among mid-market firms doing business and taking payments across the globe. By enterprise size, the company noted, mid-market firms – with 1 million euros a month in processing volume – are also seeing significant growth.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Some of the company’s achievements last year included raising $100 million in new funding, expanding its presence in Asia-Pacific and EMEA and making significant gains in both regions. In addition, Flywire rebranded and integrated OnPlan, a domestic payment capability acquired in January 2018, into its product suite.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Morgan , the successful treasury transformation in the Asia Pacific region hinges on digitization — and not simply electronification. That is higher than the percentages registered in other regions such as Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Latin America, where rates have been in the 50-plus percent levels.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

The countries exited include Turkey, Egypt, Uruguay and Puerto Rico, shrinking its audience to 22 markets with a focus on South America, Southwest Europe, Eastern Europe and Africa. Last year, Turkey was touted as one of the fastest-growing markets in Glovo’s repertoire. 21) announcement.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Want to understand payments innovation in Latin America ? One may indeed be a bit hungrier than before, but according to what NovoPayment CEO Anabel P é rez told Karen Webster during a recent PYMNTS interview, they can now understand one of the fundamentals of innovation in Latin America. Latin American Progress. Front Row Seat.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Open banking is often associated with the European Union (EU) almost by default as the region pushes the envelope further on regulation than anywhere, partly to encourage — but also to keep up with — imaginative FinTech innovators going to market throughout the Eurozone. FinTechs Flourishing. Similarities To The EU.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

While Amazon 's sales have been going well during the pandemic, it has found rivalry in Latin America from local competitors, Reuters reports. And in Brazil, the company was fifth behind MercadoLibre and other big names in that region like B2W , Via Varejo and Magazine Luiza , according to the news report.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

But among the most greenfield markets are those found in Latin America, where mobile devices may have high penetration, but traditional banking services do not. Consider the fact that the World Bank has estimated only 55 percent of adults in the Latin America and Caribbean regions have access to bank accounts.

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