PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Latin America is becoming a new weak spot for Uber, showing a 2 percent growth, the lowest of any region for the ride-hailing company, Reuters reported on Monday (Nov. Increased competition in Latin America, mainly from the Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, is being blamed for Uber’s growth slowdown in that region.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Providing onboarding services in the Latin American market is both an exciting opportunity and a challenging one. If a firm needs to digitally onboard someone and verify them, we can help that company do that fairly seamlessly,” Samer Atassi, regional director, Latin America and Caribbean for Jumio, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Niklas Östberg , CEO and co-founder of Delivery Hero, said in a prepared statement: "Latin America is a region with exceptional growth potential for online delivery. We truly believe that Delivery Hero is the best possible partner to take the business we’ve built in Latin America to the next level.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

What will it take to make Latin America more digital — in payments, commerce, FinTech or even healthcare? Cash remains king in the region, with about two-thirds of consumers in Latin America preferring that payment method over credit, according to estimates.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

By being more transparent with in-store technology, brands can help dispel some of the negative connotations around ‘push marketing.’ The market is growing and will reach some $10.2 Related Innovation. Beacons are hardly the only innovation physical retailers are turning to as the holidays and a new decade approach.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Canada and the Netherlands, as well as a larger launch in Europe this year, Mastercard is now unveiling Identity Check Mobile to Latin America. The first two countries in the region to receive it are Brazil and Mexico. After fruitful trials in the U.S., The concept is similar to a “selfie” and thus is being dubbed “selfie pay.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

With the subscription market set to reach more than $500 billion by 2023 , consumers now purchase things like music streaming, software and groceries through subscription services. But just because a merchant is successful in its home market, doesn’t mean they are also guaranteed success abroad. the use of APIs can help a lot.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Japanese investment firm SoftBank Group is in talks with two startups in Mexico in a bid to continue to search out opportunities in the Latin American market, according to a report by Reuters citing sources familiar with the matter. The market is having to play catch-up to SoftBank.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Spend controls were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to feature and program launches. This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes a rollout of the next generation of authorization controls from Comdata Inc., as well as the launch of the Flex by Finaxar initiative from Finaxar.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Payments company Ixaris has teamed up with travel industry company Sabre to expand into new European markets, with plans to eventually reach the Americas and Asia Pacific markets, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Chaves also said the company will earmark a percentage of the proceeds to accelerate financial inclusion in the region. Founded in 1999, based in Argentina and registered in the United States, MercadoLibre is an eCommerce platform and digital payment solution that operates across Latin America. 7 and are due in 2031, Bloomberg said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Want to understand payments innovation in Latin America ? One may indeed be a bit hungrier than before, but according to what NovoPayment CEO Anabel P é rez told Karen Webster during a recent PYMNTS interview, they can now understand one of the fundamentals of innovation in Latin America. Latin American Progress.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s one thing to want to improve or innovate. What’s harder — and what really makes the difference — is figuring how, where and when to innovate, a task that must take into account various factors and even wildcards that keep popping up in the growing and global digital economy and its various ecosystems. B2B Payments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

Not only that, but 82 percent of travel companies innovate to combat the loss of customers, and 36 percent of travel companies expect innovations to decrease costs. Other areas of innovation and disruption for the travel industry are heavily focused around payments. That includes the payment of airline fares. Payments Cost.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2019

The move is another move by Japan’s SoftBank Group — which is a shareholder in Uber — to integrate its business in Latin America. Brazil is now Uber’s largest market outside the United States, with São Paulo boasting more Uber rides than any other city in the world.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

In talking about global payment technology, emerging markets are an area of keen interest. Latin America is a land of opportunity, but it also presents challenges that demand an on-the-ground understanding of commerce and transacting within the various countries and cultures that it comprises. WHY GOING LOCAL MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2019

The market for wearable tech that monitors everything from your heartbeat to your blood sugar is booming, and caregivers are receiving previously unseen insight into the everyday health of their patients. percent until 2013.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2016

All of this has occurred as the company has continued to expand the pilot phase of its global payments innovation (gpi) initiative, thus far signing on dozens of major financial institutions to an effort aimed at streamlining cross-border payments. Region Stacy Rosenthal didn’t speak directly of Ripple’s swipes.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

IBM has helped many regional and global organizations along this path with everything from migrating existing workloads to forward-looking projects such as blockchain and AI. Explore IBM Banking and Financial Markets Solutions. IBM Signs On to Sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite.

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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. Buyers, sellers and brokers also have to deal with long sell times and exorbitant asking prices. “Our

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

These companies will also have access to Bluefin’s Decryptx PCI-validated P2PE solution, enabling merchants and acquiring banks in multiple jurisdictions across Europe, Mauritius and the Latin American Caribbean (LAC) region to get the security and scope reduction of PCI-validated P2PE. Is this an entirely new market for Bluefin?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Developing markets are quickly increasing their rate at which paycards are accepted, according to the latest research by RBR. 23) with positive news for developing markets. According to the report, regulations, combined with FinTech innovation, are accelerating payment card adoption in these markets.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

Global Wireless POS Market Growth. The global wireless POS terminals market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13 percent from 2017 to 2023. As a result, the region can be an “early adopter” of the technology. However, the company said that Asia-Pacific may see the fastest market growth.

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Celent Banking

APRIL 25, 2016

Digital is the new reality in Latin America. In Latin America the major milestones in Digital development we had seen were Nubank (Brazil – Market Cap $500M) and Bankaool (Mexico – ~$142M in assets), until March of 2016 when Banco Original (~$1,67Bn in assets) launched in Brazil.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2020

“According to various embodiments, cash may be removed from the markets in a frictionless manner and the payment ecosystem may be improved.”. 100 for User A in America, 200 pesos for User B in Mexico and so forth) in order to perform transactions in a secure, fast and reliable way.”. “A

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The move "represents an important strategic move for the future of our businesses, as we continue to evolve and innovate to provide merchants acquirers with future-forward payments solutions," Castles Technology Group CCO Jean-Philippe Niedergang said in the announcement.

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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

JUNE 23, 2017

Preparations for corporate banking disruption and PSD2 are stirring the innovation pot, it seems. The Series A investment was announced alongside the news that Accel’s Sonali de Rycher will also join the company’s board, and the funding will help Soldo expand beyond its key markets in the U.K. EaseCentral.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

But it stands as perhaps the main takeaway from a recent, turn-of-the-year PYMNTS conversation with Kevin Fox, executive vice president of NovoPayment , a banking as a service (BaaS) provider with a large presence across the Americas. Creating a common platform is really the foundation of these mobile wallet offerings.”. Conversation Topic.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The fleet management market is estimated to grow from $9.54 According to MarketsandMarkets, the increasing need for operational efficiency is expected to be the primary driver for the fleet management market during the forecast period. When it comes to fleet management, the market is segmented into various industries.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

Pérez-Tasso has been part of SWIFT’s executive team for seven years, and he is currently the company’s chief executive of the Americas and U.K. Pérez-Tasso joined SWIFT in 1995, and in 2015 was appointed as chief executive for the Americas and U.K. Pérez-Tasso previously served as chief marketing officer for the organization.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Earlier this year, we announced Perficient’s expansion into South America with the acquisition of Productora Software S.A.S. Building a team in this manner means more velocity and faster time to market. How did an innovative culture take shape with our nearshore development team? You also want to look for diversity.

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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. In addition, Flywire rebranded and integrated OnPlan, a domestic payment capability acquired in January 2018, into its product suite.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But he said that since the region’s average monthly income is less than $400, “we knew if we wanted to go massive, we would have to go downscale.”. Despite low average incomes, Latin America offers a huge overall market size and growth potential. The spirit of the people in Latin America will prevail.”.

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