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How Financial Technology Partners can Help with Customer Acquisition Campaigns

FICO

For credit unions and smaller banks in North America, the challenge of how to compete with their bigger counterparts is a constant and pressing matter. For many of these smaller players a partnership approach can be beneficial by leveraging resources and solutions made available through a technology partner.

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SoftBank Earmarks $1B For eCommerce, Healthcare And FinTech In LatAm

PYMNTS

SoftBank will add $1 billion this year to its $5 billion Latin America Fund introduced in 2019, adding to last year’s $1.6 Its investment in Latin America this year will target eCommerce, healthcare, FinTech and other industries, as it looks at about 650 firms in the region. billion, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Feb.

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SoftBank To Lead $125M Round For LATAM FinTech AlphaCredit

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Latin America-based AlphaCredit has signed up for a funding round to raise $125 million, led by SoftBank’s Latin America fund. AlphaCredit is a FinTech platform with a focus on consumer lending and finance solutions. It provides credit lines to individuals and has usually worked in communities without much access to banks.

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PayPal Deepens LATAM Reach With MercadoLibre Integration

PYMNTS

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.”

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Top 5 Emerging Fintech Hotspots in 2018 [Page 1]

Bank Innovation

The number of financial technology companies is on a rise, and every year many of these new companies as well as established ones choose to situate themselves in cities that are not San Francisco or New York. In some cases, the establishment of one powerful player in a region automatically turns a place into a […].

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Emergent Technology Buys Interpay To Get Access To Africa

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Emergent Technology, the financial technology company, announced Thursday (Dec. In a press release , Emergent Technology said that by acquiring Interpay, it will extend the operations of its digital payments business, Emergent Payments, into 70 emerging markets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ”

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PayPal Deepens LATAM Reach With Mercado Libre Integration

PYMNTS

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

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