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Brazil Becomes a Latin American Fintech Leader

Fintech Nexus Staff·
FintechNews Roundup
·Nov. 10, 2016·1 min read

Finnovista is a research and industry ‘catalyst’ firm that is tracking fintech growth across Latin America and Spain; in a recent report on Brazil, they track 219 fintech startups in the country, making it the most prominent Latin American country based on that metric; Mexico follows with 158 startups, then Colombia, Argentina and Chile each having 55 to 80 such startups; an infographic indicates that 26% of Brazil’s fintech startups are in the payments sector, 10% in balance sheet lending (with some web presence or other innovation), 2% in true P2P lending and 8% in crowdfunding.  Source

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