País: Chile
Friday Briefing: The digital race heats up in Colombia
This week, we analyze the impact of a US$200 million investment in Colombia’s Lulo Bank. Plus, Kavak expands globally, Peru’s regulator demands interoperability between wallets, and in Chile, Tenpo and Chubb join forces to offer digital insurance….
Friday Briefing: Blockchain innovation in Argentina’s harvest🌽🪙
This week, we take a look at how blockchain is boosting agricultural lending and attracting the likes of Santander into the arena. In addition Pix heads to Colombia and Kavak obtains US$810 million in financing….
Financial supermarkets in Chile: Ripley tests remittances and Bice microcredit
Executives from Chek and Go Bice explain how these digital platforms have leveraged their parent banks’ product offerings and other advantages of being part of financial group…
Friday Briefing: The problem of remittances
This week, we analyze the lure of the remittance business as a result of Ualá’s entry into the vertical. EBANX expands to Africa and we have a new digital bank in Brazil. We also review regulatory highlights with iupanaPRO and learn about the latest signing by Nubank. All this and more in our round-up of the digital finance highlights from LatAm….
Bice aims to become Chile’s leading BaaS provider
Fresh from launching its Banking as a Service operation, Bice now wants to promote embedded finance and take advantage of Open Banking in Chile…
Friday Briefing: Colombia moves ahead with Open Finance
This week, we analyze the uneven pace of Open Finance’s advance in LatAm. Also, Mexico’s Yaydoo was acquired by Paystand, while Nequi was licensed as a financing company in Colombia….
Smart POS: Paytechs explore new frontiers beyond payments
Payment fintechs are looking to multifunctional point-of-sale terminals as allies to set themselves apart in a highly competitive market…
Friday Briefing: The fintech winter cuts both ways
This week, leading investors including Propel, ALLVP and 17Sigma comment on the current fintech financing landscape in LatAm. Also, Brazil’s C6 expands its credit products and in Chile, banks and fintechs stop squabbling and reach agreement on standards for open finance….
2022’s largest fintech investment rounds to date
The amounts raised in investment rounds this year are a long way from the highs reached in 2021, underscoring the region’s complex financing climate…
Friday Briefing: About that crypto winter
We analyze what the dreaded “crypto winter” means for Latin American exchanges. The real estate unicorn Habi obtains a line of credit and applications for fintech licenses accumulate in Mexico….