PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It is based in Argentina , where it is used more often than Snapchat, LinkedIn and Skype, and is accessed by 28 percent of internet users. RSK is hoping that due to the economic climate in countries like Argentina and Venezuela, where currencies are in flux, the idea of a decentralized currency would be attractive. “If

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Freire added that Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico “are in the spotlight,” and there’s no “preset amount by nation.”. SoftBank has put money into the delivery startup Rappi in Colombia; Gympass , a Brazilian fitness company; and the FinTech Uala , based in Argentina.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Certainly Argentina, South America’s third largest economy, has had its troubles over the past decade or two. Argentina has had to persevere through fourteen years of default resulting in a $4.65B payment to U.S. With all those growing trends, Argentina still lags with few success stories. hedge funds.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Huobi Group has announced the official launch of a digital asset exchange in Argentina. Reuters reported that Huobi Argentina will hire a local team and establish a fiat gateway to trade or convert the Argentine peso to cryptocurrency.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In Mexico, Amazon was second place in rankings behind Argentina-based MercadoLibre for eCommerce. MercadoLibre was founded in 1999 and has seniority in the region, with a wide seller base and a greater understanding of how to succeed in that area of the world.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With Global Commercial Cards, BBVA has managed to bridge the gap between two worlds: commercial cards and expense management tools. Companies can use the offering for commercial cards issued in Portugal, Spain, Mexico, Turkey, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Peru.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 30, 2017

Here it is: I regularly ask audiences at the conferences I speak at if they think we … A world without money I have no academic papers or historical research view on what I’m about to post, although I will find some, but I was reflecting on my discussions of revolutions in humanity. . What’s it like being unbanked?

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

PayU, which provides a digital payment platform for merchants and other retailers around the world, plans to roll out Feedzai’s transaction monitoring system in its Latin America markets, including Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Panama.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In today’s top news in payments around the world, Delivery Hero said it has acquired Glovo’s Latin America operations, and Telefónica is teaming with Rakuten for the development of an OpenRAN (radio access network). Plus, Flipkart Group is reportedly getting ready to go public as early as next year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Argentina as a whole is vying for the top spot as South America’s startup capital, despite an uphill battle with its economic conditions. “It’s not all going to change overnight,” Kerry stated while visiting Argentina for the first time as America’s chief diplomat. People need to be patient,” he continued.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

On the international front, Uber also announced that both Germany and Argentina saw strong growth last quarter. Buenos Aires, Argentina has become the fifth-largest city in the world based on trips. The firm reports that more than 50 percent of its U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

“In July, the Uber platform reached over 100 million Monthly Active Platform Consumers for the first time, as we become a more and more integral part of everyday life in cities around the world,” he noted. On the international front, Uber also announced that both Germany and Argentina had seen strong growth last quarter.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Beyond Brazil, EBANX operates in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. Brazil is the largest country in South America and one of the biggest emerging economies in the world. The company is also considering a savings account product and other services, with possible rollouts to more Latin American countries.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

On the flip side, Argentina is expected to fare the worst of the large economies, with its gross domestic product (GDP) tumbling 7.9 For 2021 as a whole, the OECD sees the world economy growing 4.2 China will account for around one-third of the world’s economic recovery in 2021, the OECD said. percent), Russia (0.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

In a new report by TMF Group, analysts aimed to understand exactly how compliance demands change in various parts of the world. Rounding out the list are Colombia, China, Belgium, Argentina and India. Not only do regulations vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but the consequences of non-compliance vary greatly, too.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2019

In this seventh round series F funding, the company raised $400 million and is now the largest “digital bank” in the world, a Nubank press release said. . This year, Nubank started operations in Mexico and Argentina. Nubank was founded in 2013 as a small startup aimed at giving people control over their financial lives.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

But with no other choice in many cases, because so much of the outside world shut down, consumers turned to digital and learned that not only was it easier and more manageable than they thought, it was in many ways a preferable way of conducting commerce. These behaviors are simply never going to go quite back to what they were pre-pandemic.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Mobius pointed to Argentina, which surprised the markets in August when it asked for the early release of funds from a $50 billion financing deal with the International Monetary Fund. Raising interest rates… is not going to do the trick, and we’ve seen that around the world by the way,” he said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

According to a report in the Financial Times , members of parliament from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Latvia, Singapore, France, Belgium and the U.K. Facebook could face coordinated regulation by nine countries after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg refused to be questioned by an international committee on fake news.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

“Mexico now has the best of our rare combination of physical and digital capabilities, with the option to receive global money transfers at more than 33,000 retail locations or into almost every Mexican bank from the United States, and the ability to send money effortlessly to almost every country in the world.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

But while advancements in cross-border payments are allowing companies to reach partners in new regions of the world, there are also signs that companies are growing reluctant to conduct business in the international market because of a tense political climate. Notable news from the X-Border space. million online shoppers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Of the survey respondents, the majority of freelancers around the world expect business to grow in the future, with strong growth expected from those residing in Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Mexico and Argentina.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Something particularly notable in the emergence of FinTech platforms all over the world, Matt Dill, Visa’ s Global Head of Strategic Partnerships and Venture told Karen Webster when they discussed the worldwide launch of Visa Partner. The Changing Global Playing Field .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new PYMNTS discussion between Karen Webster and Karl Schamotta, chief market strategist at Cambridge Global Payments , functioned as a mostly bright view of the benefits that can be gained by businesses as much of the world — justified or not — moves further into the-sky-is-falling mentality. China, the U.S. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

in deals since 2012 — nearly seven times as much as either Mexico or Argentina. Despite closing fewer deals, Argentina brought in approximately $600M worth of deals, slightly above Mexico at about $570M. Argentina. Excluding Brazil, 50% of the ten largest deals went to Mexico, 30% to Argentina, and 20% to Colombia.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

Around the Digital Onboarding World. Argentina-based Wilobank is also turning to selfies for authentication. The Tracker also gauges the roles that technologies, such as biometrics and blockchain, play as identity verification procedures continue to change and expand around the world.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Martin Chikilian, vice president of talent operations for freelancing marketplace Toptal , observed that many software developers in Córdoba, Argentina, where he lives, work remotely for Silicon Valley and New York City technology firms, for example. Screening cannot be entirely left to technology, however.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

and Argentina, were down 9 percent on an as-reported basis, but up 7 percent on a constant currency basis. percent by the World Bank. Within that Business Solutions segment, said the CFO, among standout verticals has been a boost from the educational sector. Other revenues, tied to bill payments businesses in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2018

Among the biggest gap in the world right now is trade finance. Euromoney described the problem as “disconcerting,” citing data from the World Trade Organization that found merchandise exports fell by 3.3 While the data included business loans, Magilla noted that mortgages are the main driver behind this trend.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

The world has already seen big changes in Mexico, Atassi noted, and the reality is that those types of changes are going to spread throughout the region. They are already seeing evidence of that in places like Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

As one South Korean trader told Reuters: Local regulations don’t really matter all that much for a commodity like bitcoin that is traded anonymously all over the world. “In I can ask my friends who study abroad or travel there myself. It’s not that big of a problem.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

For those unfamiliar with the reality show, teams of contestants race other teams of contestants in a multi-week, multi-stop, round-the-world race. Mycoskie, while competing with his sister in Argentina, spotted the local alpargata shoes. The idea for a business was born — and christened TOMS Shoes, short for Tomorrow’s Shoes.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

The goal is to become one of the most valuable financial technology startups in the world as it eyes a region-wide expansion and seeks a valuation between $8 billion and $10 billion, according to reports in Recode. While Nubank is far from a household name in the U.S., And, according to Nubank, it’s just getting started.

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blockchain Payments Regional America 147

Filene

AUGUST 12, 2016

Argentina was playing against somebody at the sports bar at the Wynn the day I first met Ben Rogers nearly a decade ago. We’ve been through two more World Cups since then and about 500% Filene headcount growth. Regretfully, Ben won’t be at Filene for the next World Cup. A thriving program with over 1,000 members.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

Analysts concluded that “guarded optimism” best described the sentiment of Canada’s CFOs, but how does that stack up to the rest of the world? Companies across the world also share a vision that their growth is likely to occur mostly in their perspective markets. Optimism Levels.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2019

In addition, FinCEN has a Crisis Response team that works around the clock when a terrorist attack occurs anywhere in the world. FinCEN is actively fighting this battle by working with Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Switzerland, and Lichtenstein, to trace the illicit flow of dirty money leaving Venezuela.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Red Dot Capital Partners has landed $200 million to invest in tech firms, Walmart announced it would sell its retail operations in Argentina to Grupo de Narváez. With Argentina’s Economy Slumping, Walmart Sells Stores To Grupo de Narváez.

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