By the end of 2020, the Central Bank of Brazil launched its own instant payment system, called PIX, with the ambitious goal of speeding up and facilitating transactions.
Here are the top 10 quotes, among the many keynotes, panels, and conversations at LendIt fintech LatAm Miami Last week.
Buy Now Pay Later is taking off in Latin America as an alternative for short-term financing and financial inclusion.
After exactly two years since the last in-person event, Bo Brustkern and Peter Renton took to the LendIt keynote stage to welcome hundreds of Latin American fintech and financial services executives.
Just a few years ago, Banking as a Service (BaaS) was a term hardly ever heard in Latin America outside...
The Latin American fintech community gathered in Miami last week for the third annual LendIt Fintech LatAm event.
Yave, a mortgage and credit fintech that aims to capture the Mexican mortgage market, won the day after an excellent presentation by co-founder and CEO Bernardo Silva. He said he wanted to break into the slow-moving trad marketplace for mortgages and help brokers put the mortgage right into the sales process.
Rappi prides itself on providing anything people want at any time. With such a lofty aim, it is only logical that sooner or later, the company would look to financial services to increase that convenience even further.
When considering mergers and acquisitions in Latin America, companies better have a well-thought-out strategy before proceeding, a panel of experts agreed at LendIt Fintech LatAm 2021, held Dec. 7-8 in Miami, Fla.
David Velez founded Nubank in 2013 with the idea of taking on big banks in Brazil and leveraging technology to change how financial products are served in the country radically.