País: El Salvador
These are Latin America’s instant payment systems
SPEI in Mexico, Pix in Brazil, Transferencias 3.0 in Argentina, Sinpe in Costa Rica and many others… Instant payment systems continue to spread across the region…
From payments to loans: competition for SME customers intensifies
Fintechs struggling to sell financial services to reluctant SMEs are leveraging data from payment services to diversify their digital financial offering and grow the market…
Friday Briefing: Credicorp hunts for cryptocurrency business models
Peruvian bank BCP begins its dive into the crypto world, while CBDC use cases take a step forward in Brazil. Ualá customers report accounts being emptied, Creditas closes 2021 in the red. …
Investors zoom in on credit
2022 is shaping up to be a year of growth and new business models for credit fintechs…
To scale, digital payments must be as easy as sending a message
Cash is retreating, but there is still plenty of room for financial institutions to roll out intuitive solutions, says the head of payments systems at Mexico’s central bank. …
Interview: Banks should be customers’ invisible partner
Banks must invest in innovation in order to change their negative image, even though it may take time before they see the results, says Claudio Rodrigues, technology leader at Banco Ripley in Chile…
Bank and startup acquisitions are rising in LatAm’s hot fintech market
A trend of fintech and bank mergers & acquisitions is gaining momentum in Latin America…
Crypto businesses of the future will leverage payments and credit
The financial industry is exploring the use of cryptocurrencies in payments or as collateral for loans…
Cryptocurrencies in LatAm, the struggle to centralize the decentralized
The approval of bitcoin in El Salvador is unlikely to cause a domino effect in the legalization of cryptocurrencies in LatAm, experts say…
Cybersecurity is the new key to financial stability
Forget bank capital: cybersecurity is the key to financial stability today…