Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Romance languages such as Spanish and Portuguese are predominantly spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Surging Debit Use Leads ‘Eighty-Fold’ Acceleration in LatAm Digital Payments

Surging Debit Use Leads ‘Eighty-Fold’ Acceleration in LatAm Digital Payments
Surging Debit Use Leads ‘Eighty-Fold’ Acceleration in LatAm Digital Payments
October 25, 2021  |  Payment Methods

In just two years, Latin American debit and credit card use rates have essentially swapped their market share positions.  In 2019, roughly 60% of the...

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Banco de Bogotá On What’s Driving Payments Digitization Forward In Colombia
Banco de Bogotá On What’s Driving Payments Digitization Forward In Colombia
October 20, 2021  |  Digital Payments

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Rising Smartphone, Digital Service Usage Drives Adoption of Non-Cash Payments in Latin America
Rising Smartphone, Digital Service Usage Drives Adoption of Non-Cash Payments in Latin America
October 14, 2021  |  Digital Payments

Cash use is so prevalent in many Latin American markets that consumers actually go out of their way to use it to make a payment...

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Deep Dive: Examining Latin America’s Payments Ecosystem and the PSP Opportunity
Deep Dive: Examining Latin America’s Payments Ecosystem and the PSP Opportunity
September 24, 2021  |  Digital Payments

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Clocktower Technology Ventures: Understanding Latin America’s Fragmented Payments Landscape
Clocktower Technology Ventures: Understanding Latin America’s Fragmented Payments Landscape
September 23, 2021  |  Digital Payments

Financial institutions (FIs) entering Latin America have their work cut out for them in a place where cash still reigns and the digital payments ecosystem...

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PSPs Hold Infrastructure Key to Solving LatAm’s Fragmentation Problem
PSPs Hold Infrastructure Key to Solving LatAm’s Fragmentation Problem
September 22, 2021  |  Digital Payments

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For Brazil-based Businesses, It’s a Good Time to Expand to US, But Not an Easy One
For Brazil-based Businesses, It’s a Good Time to Expand to US, But Not an Easy...
September 10, 2021  |  Cross-border Payments

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B2B Marketplace wherEX Sees Buy Now Pay Later As Boost To Building Buyer Trust, Sales
B2B Marketplace wherEX Sees Buy Now Pay Later As Boost To Building Buyer Trust, Sales
August 30, 2021  |  B2B Payments

When a company is shopping for materials, there’s no catalog of B2B merchants like there is for consumer goods — a company’s needs are too...

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Brazilian FinTech Nubank Readies For IPO, Valuation Could Top $55B
Brazilian FinTech Nubank Readies For IPO, Valuation Could Top $55B
August 25, 2021  |  IPO

Nubank, a Brazil-based FinTech that has amassed more than 40 million clients in Latin America in part by looking for business among constituencies ignored by...

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