Facebook Launches WhatsApp Payments in Brazil
Facebook is launching a WhatsApp-based digital payments service for the messaging app’s 120m Brazilian users; users will be able to send money to other ...
Forbes 2020 List of the World’s Best Banks
Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to measure the best banks in more than 20 countries by surveying more than 40,000 customers; the financial ...
Konfío Helps Mexican SMBs Weather the Crisis
Mexican small businesses are being hit by the pandemic just as much as other markets and they are in desperate need for capital ...
Argentina Startups are Accustomed to Crisis Times
Startups in Argentina have been used to dealing with various crises in the last decade and the pandemic just adds another event to ...
Coronavirus Having Significant Impact on Digital Banking in Argentina
Both Tencent and SoftBank have invested in the company called Ualá which is seeing massive growth during the coronavirus crisis; the company launched ...
askRobin Raises $1.7 to Serve Underbanked in Latin America
askRobin is based in Estonia but serves consumers in Latin America; the company first started in Mexico in late 2017, creating a Facebook ...
N26 Amongst Group of Digital Banks to Make Big Changes in Response to Crisis
N26 said they are furloughing 10 percent of their staff, cutting back on advertising spending and reconsidering their planned launch in Brazil; the ...
A Detailed Look at What’s Happening in LatAm Fintech
Back in December we held Finnosummit Miami by LendIt Fintech to capture all of the interesting things happening in Latin America; Timothy Li, ...
Brazil’s Loft Raises $175mn Series C Round
Brazil based digital real estate startup Loft has raised a $175mn series C round to help make the process of buying and selling ...
The Biggest Fintech Winners of 2019
Business Insider is looking back as we near the new year at what fintech companies had the biggest impact in 2019; the metrics ...