NYC fintech Women co-founder Michelle Tran said the awards highlight the determination of 65 leaders, founders, product builders, and money movers.
While there will likely be a change in how organizations use sanctions as a tool, their increased use looks to continue.
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.
Mercado Libre has seen great success in providing financing to millions of people who struggled to obtain it through traditional lenders.
Credijusto, a leading Mexican small business fintech paid $50 million to buy Banco Finterra in June. Co-CEO David Poritz wrapped day one of the LendIt LatAm keynote section, discussing what it was like as the only neobank holding a banking license in Mexico.
Just before lunch, after a morning of fireside chats at LendIt Fintech LatAm, was the heavy hitter Pierpaolo Barbieri, CEO, and founder of Ualá.
LatAm fintechs have a massive advantage over traditional financial companies: a lack of a robust, cost-heavy physical infrastructure that thwarts cross-border expansion.