An overview of neobanks in Latin America
To tackle financial inclusion, LatAm’s banking industry needs to undergo changes and disruption.
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How Latin America’s fintech market could exceed $150bn by 2021
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Regulatory sandboxes in LatAm and Caribbean – Inter-American Development Bank report
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Brazil-based digital bank Banco Original live with new treasury tech
Banco Original, a pure-play digital bank in Brazil has gone live with a new treasury management system, OpenLink’s Findur. The vendor says the implementation was completed in ten months. Findur is the bank’s new cross-asset and treasury solution, integrated with internet banking and handling a range of financial products such as bank certificate of deposit […]
PayPal plans Latin America growth with América Móvil alliance
PayPal is teaming up with Mexican telecommunications giant América Móvil as it looks to expand in Latin America. The alliance’s focus will be on a new mobile wallet platform, which lets users pay for items by smartphone scans. With América Móvil on board, PayPal can target 140 million users in Brazil and Mexico. Dan Schulman, […]
Banking at a digital crossroads
The Banking industry is at a digital crossroad as it faces both a wave of technology companies poised to disaggregate every facet of the business and a changing consumer that is increasingly demanding that banks products match the state-of-the-art digital services they are receiving from other industries
Citi names finalists for Latin America Mobile Challenge 2014
Citi has chosen the ‘headliner’ finalists for its mobile innovation competition in Latin America, the Mobile Challenge LatAm 2014, which aims to bring together individuals and companies with innovative ideas to create applications for Citi’s Latin America mobile banking platform.
YellowPepper spices up Latin American mobile payments
A new mobile payments network called YellowPepper has launched in Colombia, marking the beginning of a massive project to bank the unbanked and sweep away the dominance of cash across the Spanish-speaking Americas.
“Disruptive” Spanish and Portuguese start-ups to showcase talent in Madrid
A new joint project between Spanish financial services project Next Bank Madrid and Swift’s Innotribe innovation wing aims to unleash the potential of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American start-up companies in financial services.
Chilean broker imports UK trading technology
Chilean broker Banchile, part of Santiago- based Banco de Chile, has deployed a brokerage platform from UK systems supplier Fidessa that will link it to international trading venues.
LSE targets Latin American business through Peru deal
The London Stock Exchange Group has entered a partnership with Peru’s Lima Stock Exchange, in which the LSEG will provide trading and smart order routing technology to Peru.
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Chris Brummer in line for @CFTC chairman role fintechfutures.com/2021/01/chris-…
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Singapore’s iSTOX [@istoxexchange] lands $50m from heavyweight Japanese backers to “democratise” Asia-Pacific’s pri… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
DNA Payments Group acquires Active Merchant Services fintechfutures.com/2021/01/dna-pa…