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MARCH 19, 2019

Santander InnoVentures, Santander Group’s global corporate venture capital fund, announced Tuesday (March 19) its appointment of Chris Gottschalk as a senior adviser to lead the $200M fund’s strategic direction in the U.S. portfolio companies a stronger entrance into North America. It also gives the fund’s non-U.S.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

Latin America-based AlphaCredit has signed up for a funding round to raise $125 million, led by SoftBank’s Latin America fund. Alcanza Capital and Bontu. There will be other leading venture capital firms from international waters also joining with SoftBank, though the press release does not list them.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B Want the 12-page report for free?

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JUNE 28, 2018

But the recent thefts, along with other attempted and completed cyberattacks, demonstrate why payments officials in the region are expressing fresh concern about financial security there. Evidence of that comes from Swift’s Latin America Regional Conference , held earlier this month in Miami. Fraud is a Top Worry.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Kavak CEO Carlos Garcia told the news outlet that SoftBank has been meeting with a lot of startups in the Latin American region. . “We SoftBank recently announced a $5 billion Innovation Fund solely focused on Latin America , and it has been researching startups in Mexico especially. .

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times. Meet Competitive Pressures : National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for five, seven, ten-year fixed-rate loans.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times. Meet Competitive Pressures : National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for five, seven, ten-year fixed-rate loans.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In 6 years, Latin America (LatAm) fintech funding has grown from less than $50M to top $2.1B This has caused some investors to pull back in the region and challenged startups to raise funding from new investors, as illustrated further below by the number of unique investors and startups in the LatAm fintech market. across 139 deals.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

“The Brazilian and therefore Latin American ERP market is dominated by TOTVS, which is by far the largest indigenous software company in the region, with revenues of just a little over £400 million. The company is also selling off Sage Pay, which is on track for a capital return of £250 million. assets for $100.3 million.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Bank of America (BofA) officially announced it “will begin declining credit card transactions with known cryptocurrency exchanges” today through a memo distributed to employees on Thursday (Feb. The financial institution (FI) joins a growing list of banks issuing similar policies, including Capital One Financial Corp.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

To get a sense of the new frontiers in cybercrime, and how cryptocurrency helps fraudsters cover their tracks or finance their schemes … look, perhaps, to Latin America. Separately, in terms of fraud against companies, banking trojans, malware and ransomware have been coming from the Latin American region, the paper said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Latin America -based Loft , a digital real estate startup that aims to make buying and selling real estate in the region easier, has raised $175 million in a series C funding round, according to a press release.

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MARCH 3, 2020

To continue supporting technology in regions all over the world from North America to Southeast Asia, Leonid Boguslavsky-founded RTP Global unveiled a new $650 million fund to keep investing in early-stage tech companies. The venture capital firm’s last fund totaled $200 million and was rolled out in 2017, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Open banking is often associated with the European Union (EU) almost by default as the region pushes the envelope further on regulation than anywhere, partly to encourage — but also to keep up with — imaginative FinTech innovators going to market throughout the Eurozone. FinTechs Flourishing. Similarities To The EU.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The cash flow challenges for small businesses have been in place for a while, in Latin America since well before the pandemic took root. In Latin America, the infrastructure mainly relies on banks to provide kind of these types of services to the SME segment. trillion globally, according to Shoihet.

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Celent has been collaborating to help create the fintech ecosystem in the Latin American region since its inception and I had the honor, for 2nd time, to judge the fintech start-ups participating in the BBVA Open Talent, which brought the Latin American finalists into town as part of Finnosummit. Discover the finalists of all regions here.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Monashees Capital and Canary also invested in Volanty in this round after last year providing 19 million reais ($4.8 SoftBank launched a $5 billion Latin America fund in March, the largest investment of venture capital funds the region has seen. Funds will also help existing portfolio companies expand in Latin America.

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The Paypers

APRIL 5, 2022

Citi has launched its Sustainable Trade and Working Capital Loans (Sustainable T&WC Loans) solution in Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Latin America, and Asia Pacific regions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

London-based FinTech startup Curve has raised $95 million in Series C funding led by IDC Ventures, Fuel Venture Capital, and the investment division of Vulcan Capital, launched from the estate of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. is being managed by Amanda Orson , vice president and head of North America.

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Abrigo

JULY 25, 2016

Following the release of Sageworks Bank Information’s list of America’s healthiest banks by region in March of 2015, the company recently examined the health of their credit union (CU) counterparts. The list – America’s healthiest credit unions – names the top 50 CUs that stand out from the pack with an exceptionally low Texas Ratio.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Some of the company’s achievements last year included raising $100 million in new funding, expanding its presence in Asia-Pacific and EMEA and making significant gains in both regions. Our team, both our employees and our investors, have put us in a great position to capitalize on a massive opportunity.”.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2018

but it may be smarter for those startups looking to break into that market to look at other regions, Eric Wiesen, general partner for Bullpen Capital, told Bank Innovation. “In EXCLUSIVE— The march of mobile banking and payments continues across the U.S., In the U.S.,

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 28, 2024

The Biden Administration “Investing in America” agenda continues with many programs opening in June of this year. Background The Investing in America agenda comprises the American Rescue Plan, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, CHIPS and Science Act, and Inflation Reduction Act.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

New research from UBS points to the largest spenders on bank technology: JPMorgan and Bank of America. Bank of America has a $10 billion IT spending budget, with 30 percent used for its “technology initiative investment spend,” reports said. That’s a 5.6 Coming in at No.

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BankInovation

JUNE 1, 2020

Santander Group’s venture capital fund, Santander InnoVentures, has deepened its presence in Latin America with its fourth investment in the region, this time funneling $5 million in a Series A funding round into a55, a niche alternative SME lender, the VC firm announced in a release last week.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2019

Payments startup Stripe announced earlier in August that it was planning to open an office in Mexico City to take advantage of opportunities for growth in the Latin American region. Stripe Chief Business Officer Billy Alvarado said that the activity in the region made the move an easy choice. With a valuation of $22.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Conductor, which has been backed by Riverwood Capital since 2014, is a key technology processing platform for retailers, banks and other companies in Brazil, according to the press release. In a press release , Visa said the investment will go to help Conductor expand its products and to accelerate innovation in payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This latest round of funding comes from new investment firm Durable Capital Partners. Other investors included Tiger Global, Coatue, General Catalyst, Target Global and Entrée Capital. Rapyd’s CEO and Co-founder Arik Shtilman said the company is looking to make some acquisitions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

These new capabilities and partnerships fuel our mission to empower businesses to grow,” said Payoneer VP, Regional Head of Americas Iain McNicoll. In February, the company debuted a financing solution, its Capital Advance service, that connects eCommerce companies to working capital financing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

We took that feedback to heart and have invested in both the infrastructure and the human capital to deliver on it.”. Before joining the team, he was a Treasury Management regional sales manager and senior vice president at Wells Fargo covering Northern California.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

VTEX has been around since 1999, but it hasn’t had the need to raise a significant amount of capital thus far, mostly operating off of its own revenues. . Gomide said VTEX needs to look beyond just serving its own region. “At Companies that have been focused on one specific region are now realising that trade is a global thing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

But there’s another driving motivator behind the growth of the global freelancing economy, according to Payoneer Vice President Americas, Regional Head, SMB Iain McNicoll , and Vice President, Regional Head, South East Asia Miguel Warren.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The funding round was led by the Growth Fund of L Catterton and Activant Capital , which works with companies disrupting legacy industries, according to the release. Brands like Banner|Aetna , Boeing , Circle K , Red Bull North America , Sam’s Club , Teamsters Western Region and New Jersey Health Care Fund are among 98point6's member list.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup is all about data. However, the biggest funding round of the week went to a company that is not yet in the B2B FinTech space, though it has plans to use the capital to launch a cross-border, small business (SMB) money-transfer service. Catch up on the latest investment rounds below.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

There has been a lot of interest from China toward the Latin American region, with companies like Didi Chuxing , Huawei and Baidu all looking for investments in the area. It’s about learning from their experience in China and in other Asian markets to inform our Latin America strategy,” Barbieri told Reuters.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Human capital management (HCM) software as a service (SaaS) firm Ceridian is launching Dayforce Wallet to give people the flexibility of getting paid in real-time, whenever they want it. Ceridian also acquired the Asia-based HCM firm Excelity Global Solutions from the Everstone Group. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Luckily, research from Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Capital One and others often point to one thing: Despite the challenges, small businesses are optimistic. Bank of America also found in a fall 2017 survey that nearly three-quarters of SMBs expect their 2017 year-end revenues to beat 2016’s figures.

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