LendIt Fintech LatAm 2020, our second annual event focused on Latin American fintech is happening next week (December 8-9), online...
Both Tencent and SoftBank have invested in the company called Ualá which is seeing massive growth during the coronavirus crisis;...
Thiago Piau runs StoneCo Ltd. a company which has been successful in the payments space dominated by Brazil’s largest banks;...
askRobin is based in Estonia but serves consumers in Latin America; the company first started in Mexico in late 2017,...
Finnovista is a research and industry 'catalyst' firm that is tracking fintech growth across Latin America and Spain; in a recent report on Brazil, they track 219 fintech startups in the country, making it the most prominent Latin American country based on that metric; Mexico follows with 158 startups, then Colombia, Argentina and Chile each having 55 to 80 such startups; an infographic indicates that 26% of Brazil's fintech startups are in the payments sector, 10% in balance sheet lending (with some web presence or other innovation), 2% in true P2P lending and 8% in crowdfunding. Source
There are many reasons why Latin America is the hottest region on the planet right now for fintech innovation. Venture...
If you ask around the fintech community what regions are up and coming when it comes to fintech you will...
At LendIt Fintech LatAm I also chatted with Angela Strange, a general partner at the well-known venture capital firm Andreessen...
According to Banking Technology, PayU will be implementing Mambu's software-as-a-service based core banking platform; the software will support PayU's short-term deferred payment product; Mambu now has 26 clients which it supports from its Miami office; PayU is currently running a pilot in Colombia but it is expected to roll out services across Latin America. Source
Brazil and Mexico are often talked about as fintech booms in Latin America; the size of the industry overall is...