Tagged: South America

October 1, 2023 @ 5:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Over 200,000 consumers have reportedly verified their World ID in Chile as demand for the privacy-preserving digital identity protocol continues to grow following the Worldcoin project launch in July. In a country with approximately 19.5M residents, that’s “over 1% of the population.” In order to… Read More

September 29, 2023 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE:NU), which claims to be one of the largest digital financial services platforms, announces NuFuturo, an ecosystem developed in partnership with Federal Universities in Brazil to accelerate careers in technology and foster innovation. The initiative encourages the development of research “related to the fields… Read More

September 23, 2023 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE:NU), which claims to be one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, has just completed one year of its adherence to Open Finance (a system that allows customer data sharing among financial institutions with consent) and is “positively impacting its customers’ financial… Read More

September 19, 2023 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Credolab, a smartphone and web behavioural data analytics platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Circulo de Credito, a fast-growing Credit Information Society (Credit Bureau) in Mexico. The partnership aims to bring more financial inclusion to Mexico by “providing innovative credit, risk and fraud scoring… Read More

September 14, 2023 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE:NU) is launching one more type of secured loan for its customers in Brazil: the FGTS-backed loan. The new product aligns with the company’s plan “to expand its secure credit offering in 2023 and is gradually being made available to the eligible customer base.”… Read More

September 3, 2023 @ 8:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Growing numbers of world governments are beginning to scrutinize the services provided by Worldcoin, which is described as a crypto-related initiative that’s co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman that was officially launched in July of this year. Nearly 2.3 million consumers throughout the… Read More

August 31, 2023 @ 6:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Argentina is regarded as one of the world’s “leading” countries for innovation and crypto adoption, according to an update shared by WorldCoin. That reputation was reinforced in August, “as demand for World ID in Argentina drove a new single day record for Orb verifications.” This,… Read More

August 31, 2023 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Approximately one year after its launch, Nubank’s (NYSE:NU) “Caixinhas” has already established itself as one of the “favorite” investment solutions among the platform’s customers. By the end of August, the tool had reportedly “reached 8.6 million active customers, more than double the 3.5 million recorded… Read More

August 31, 2023 @ 3:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Startups in Latin America are reportedly laying off staff members and are now expecting significantly more initial public offerings (IPOs) by 2024. According to reports, around two-thirds or roughly 67% of Latin American firms have now laid off staff members during the past 18 months,… Read More

August 28, 2023 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil will require an estimated $200 billion (BRL 1 trillion) investment to reach its 2030 climate goals, according to a new study released by the World Economic Forum. That’s over $100 Billion USD more “in climate transition investments than the country is currently on track… Read More

August 25, 2023 @ 10:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C), which claims to be a global leader in foreign exchange (FX) markets, has made a strategic investment in Rextie, Peru’s fintech for FX services. The investment makes Rextie Latin America’s first FX fintech “to receive an investment from one of the largest… Read More

August 21, 2023 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In order to make it possible for companies from all over the world to connect with Latin America to do business, Bitso —the financial services company powered by crypto in Latin America, with more than 1,500 institutional clients globally— announced “that it is expanding its… Read More

August 20, 2023 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE:NU), which claims to be one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, announces the start of practical tests as part of its integration into the pilot project of Drex, the Brazilian digital currency formerly known as Real Digital. The start… Read More

August 18, 2023 @ 2:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dock, a B2B technology company for payments and banking, announced that Tenpo, Chile’s largest digital bank with more than 2.2 million customers, is now “a customer of the Brazilian company.” Dock’s expertise and infrastructure is “behind the issuing and processing technology that Tenpo is using… Read More

August 16, 2023 @ 5:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paymentology, the global issuer-processor, announces an expanded partnership with Mastercard (NYSE: MA) to bolster financial inclusion across Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. According to a recent Mastercard and Americas Market Intelligence (AMI) study, while most Latin Americans gained “access to basic financial products between 2020… Read More

August 10, 2023 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance has announced that it has become the first fully licensed crypto exchange in El Salvador “after being granted both a Bitcoin Services Provider license (BSP) by the Central Reserve Bank (Banco Central de Reserva) and the first non-provisional Digital Assets Services Provider license (DASP),… Read More

August 9, 2023 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) has completed the acquisition of Boa Vista Serviços, which claims to be the second largest credit bureau in Brazil. This strategic and financially attractive acquisition “grows Equifax‘s presence in Brazil and offers Boa Vista Serviços customers access to expansive Equifax international capabilities… Read More

August 8, 2023 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Allaire, Co-founder & CEO of Circle, a Fintech that’s focused on stablecoins and other services supporting the blockchain and crypto sector, says that despite the hype that they’re all about the US, the firm “estimates that 70% of USDC adoption is non-US, and some… Read More

July 30, 2023 @ 8:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE:NU) has just taken another step beyond financial solutions, “diversifying its platform of products and services.” In a partnership with the North American app Hopper, Nu will aim to “offer a comprehensive travel portal within Nubank’s Shopping platform, the company’s marketplace, to facilitate the… Read More

July 28, 2023 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Matera, maker of instant payments, QR code and digital ledger technology, recently released its mid-year report on the adoption of Brazil’s Pix instant payments scheme. The latest Pix by the Numbers report “covers data through Q2 2023, and shows that there are more Pix transactions… Read More