Credicorp’s corporate VC fund seeks further fintech investments in LatAm
LatAm List – Credicorp’s venture capital arm, Krealo, recently invested in Peruvian payment processor Culqi, proving the bank’s interest…
Visa makes first Brazilian investment in fintech Conductor
LatAm List – Visa recently announced a small strategic investment into tech payments processor, Conductor, which has been…
MercadoLibre debuts QR code payments in Brazil
For the past two months, MercadoLibre has tested QR code payments in physical stores in Argentina. Over 160,000…
Observe Technologies wins Start-Up Chile Demo Day G19
Sixteen startups presented their pitches at the Start-Up Chile Generation 19 Demo Day at Bridge Cowork in Santiago,…
Colombian fintech Portal Finance closes US$200M lending deal with BTG Pactual
Portal Finance is an invoice-backed finance company that streamlines access to capital for small- and medium-sized businesses in Latin…
Santiago Stock Exchange launches Startech blockchain and fintech accelerator
El Mercurio reports that Santiago’s stock exchange has long seen innovation as inseparable from the finance market. For…
AliPay enters Mexican market through OpenPay partnership
Alipay is the primary method of online and mobile transactions for Chinese consumers. It has over 600 million…
TiendaMIA partners with Nubi to improve cross-border e-commerce in Argentina
TiendaMIA offers products from the world’s largest e-commerce sites, eBay, Amazon, and Walmart, in Latin America. Nubi is…
Brazil’s PagSeguro raises US$2.7B in IPO
In a story originally brought to our attention by Reuters and SeekingAlpha, Brazilian payments system PagSeguro had the fifth-best first…